Quality and Patient Safety DirectorateHealth Service Executive (HSE)2015-09-282015-09-282015-01http://hdl.handle.net/10147/578777Hand hygiene in the healthcare setting reduces the transmission of pathogens and the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HCAI).1 Improving hand hygiene is one of the aims of the National Clinical Programme on HCAI and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The first national guidelines for hand hygiene in the healthcare setting were published in 2005 by the Strategy for the Control of Antimicrobial Resistance in Ireland (SARI).2 In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued comprehensive evidence-based guidelines on hand hygiene in healthcare,1 which introduced the ‘5 moments of hand hygiene’, which have been widely internationally adoptedenhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/PATIENT SAFETYHAND HYGIENECLINICAL GOVERNANCEINFECTION CONTROLAUDITReport