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Hi Helen,

We had a resident in our MSU at one site who did approach the wall mounted AHBR wall stations. The staff observed her over a period of time and determined which stations were being used. The gel was removed from those stations.
Recently we increased the amount of stations in all sites including MSU and have not had any concerns with residents approaching these, we have gone for he push button instead of the automatic (as residents were able to access the AHBR in the automatic stations easier than working out a push button).
We found the residents were more attracted to the single pump bottles which they collected in their travels around the unit.

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Kathleen Felstead
Clinical Quality & Education Consultant
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Hello all

I wondered if anyone has specific research into the installation of wall mounted ABHR units in wings for residents with dementia. Much of the research or reported cases of people drinking ABHR relate to individual bottles of solution and not from wall mounted units. W are currently looking the installation across all of our units and wondered if anyone has undertaken a risk assessment of this or had experience/opinions of this. We naturally want to balance the safety risk for the confused resident with the risk of not have suitable hand hygiene methods available from an IPC perspective.

Kind regards,

Helen Finlay
National Manager Infection Control
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