Hygiene for the World

This specialist periodical keeps you up-to-date with news and information from the world of hygiene, cleanliness and infection control.
Back issues of the publication can be downloaded from the Archive.

The changing face of intelligent hospital planning
Maximum safety: Utility rooms that double as airlocks
The power of hand hygiene

Teams pull together to successfully tackle norovirus outbreak
Professor Didier Pittet looks ahead: ICPIC conference in June 2013 in Geneve
Missing link between technology and hygiene. Martin Scherrer

Healing Architecture also reduces patient anxiety
Cutting-edge modernity at the Nouvel Hôpital Civil in Strasbourg
Well worth a listen: Intensive care podcasts

How to deal with faeces and urin: The IFIC has launched a study to find out
Bedpans and urin bottles still not being properly cleaned 100 percent of the time
A handy solution: Bedside hand disinfection


Not everything that goes wrong is someone’s fault
Hospitals are still failing to recognise usability as part of the value chain
Faecal transplantation used to treat

Staff members are the key to infection control
Perfect hygiene: Wash-off effect plus thermal disinfection
Ortenau Klinikum Offenburg-Gengenbach warded gold for “Clean Hands” initiative