Healthcare heroes deliver hygiene message
Healthcare Heroes
Delivering Hygiene Message
Twelve 'healthcare heroes' who won Vernacare's comic book caption competition have received framed copies of their winning creations.
The winners entered the competition at the comic book themed Vernacare City stand at the recent Infection Prevention Society 2010 Conference. All visitors to the stand were invited to share their top tips on hospital hygiene in comic style, with hundreds joining in the light-hearted challenge.
Among them Linda Woodward-Stammer, Lead Infection Prevention and Control Nurse at West Middlesex University Hospital, who is pictured receiving a copy of her very own comic caption: "Cleaning used to be such a chore. Now we have Tuffie I want to clean more and more".
Tuffie wipes are a range of multi-surface cleaning and disinfecting wipes, available across the UK, including the new Tuffie 5 sporicidal wipes which were featured at the conference earlier this year.
"There was a serious message behind the comic book theme", said Chris Socratous, Vernacare Product Manager. "Our mission was to highlight innovation in infection prevention and present solutions to the challenges of improving standards of hospital hygiene."
Other competition winners from across the UK included Michelle Turner, Infection Control and Prevention Nurse at James Paget Hospital and Julie Singleton, Infection Control Nurse at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, who were both delighted to have been selected from such a large group of entrants.
