Page 1651 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 12 May 2015

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recorded an organisation-wide handwashing compliance of 98 per cent, a dramatic increase on the 77 per cent rate in 2010. This resulted from the hospital’s new policy that hospital-acquired infections should be eliminated, not merely reduced, and by incorporating handwashing compliance into employee performance assessments.

Maybe instead of a punitive approach an opportunity exists to apply the restorative practice philosophy that has worked so well in education and juvenile justice. Restorative practice focuses on using shame, with a continuum of respect and support, to induce behaviour change. We must take action now in our hospitals to further reinforce handwashing procedures.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

The Assembly adjourned at 4.38 pm.

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