AHP Webinar: Glove Awareness Week

Thursday 5th May 2022, 12:30-13:30

Published: 03 May 2022 Health & safety

The 5th Annual RCN Glove Awareness Week, starts on the 2nd of May and focuses attention on the consequences of wearing medical gloves when they are not required, and urges clinicians to safely reduce glove use.

Rose Gallagher MBE will give an introduction to the RCN work and Andrew Caddick will introduce the MOOC, which is a Massive Open Online Course being developed as part of a shared effort to reduce inappropriate glove usage, followed by a chance to discuss how AHPs can take this work forward.

It is hoped that as many AHPs as possible can attend. The webinar will be chaired by Wendy Briggs, Clinical Procurement and Quality Assurance Specialist -The Clinical Procurement and Quality Assurance Team.

The webinar will include the below speakers:

Andrew Caddick, Project Manager, PPE Innovation and Sustainability
Rose Gallagher MBE, Professional Lead Infection Prevention and Control/AMR
Linda Hindle, Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care

There is no need to register or book a space on this webinar, just follow this link at 12:30pm on Thursday 5th May 2022.