{"id":114978,"date":"2025-10-11T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114978\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:37:09","slug":"best-and-worst-hospitals-rated-for-staff-handwashing-as-winter-season-illnesses-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114978\/","title":{"rendered":"Best and worst hospitals rated for staff handwashing as winter season illnesses loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some hospitals have gone backwards in the hygiene marker since the pandemic. Stock photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c86a2226-749f-4c45-b2d5-00d9cbdd5fae.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Some hospitals have gone backwards in the hygiene marker since the pandemic. Stock photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The hospitals with the best and worst scores for staff washing their hands have been revealed as the winter flu season approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Handwashing is a key infection-control measure, and the most recent inspections show several hospitals were still failing to meet the staff hand-washing target of 90pc when observed during various critical points concerning the care of patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some hospitals have gone backwards in the hygiene marker since the pandemic. Stock photo: Getty The hospitals with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[2271,18,135,475,474,60,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-114978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-hse","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}