For Hospitals

We can supply hospitals with cleansers, hand wash, skin wash, hand rubs, disinfectants and more, to help reduce the spread of infection whilst protecting the skin of staff and patients. Being major brand leaders in South Korea, we have the deep knowledge, experience and products to work with hospital and care home staff all over the globe. 

Read on to find out more…

“We know how to kill the microbes, so why are those microbes still killing people?”

We are very positive people at NewGenne, so why ask such a negative question? Because thousands of premature deaths arise from hospital infections every year. We believe most of those deaths are avoidable and we actively work to prevent such deaths.

When we formed the company in 2001, the concept of having NO infections in a British hospital was a concept that few were able to grasp. To many, hospital professionals, infections were inevitable when you grouped sick people in hospitals. 100,000 infection deaths have occurred in British hospitals in the last 20 years, keeping these professionals extremely busy.

What has changed in two decades?

Now, a few British hospitals count the days when they have no infections; the rest still count the infections every day. In this sector, that’s astounding progress.

What has the NewGenne team contributed over those years?

One example is that Dr Harley Farmer, a co-founder, recently had a chapter published in an infection prevention textbook which is now used in continued professional development. He used that chapter to point out the importance of medical professionals following evidence of success, rather than the usual evidence of failure.

How does that help when so many continue to die? The answer is extremely evident. We can do a lot, and we have. It’s very pleasing to see how many people within the sector now stand with us.

We welcome you to join this positive collaboration.

Healthy skin on the hands of healthcare workers is vital in the battle against infections.

Despite this necessity, it’s apparently considered reasonable for a quarter of healthcare workers to suffer from Occupational Dermatitis on their hands. The primary focus has been on these people using strong antimicrobial hand hygiene products with little regard for how these products adversely affect the skin on the hands.

The most common chemicals in hand hygiene products are chlorhexidine and alcohol. Both remove vital fats from skin, resulting in skin dryness. When dry skin results from hand hygiene products provided by employers, they often provide their employees with hand creams and moisturisers.

Using peer-reviewed medical evidence, we’ve shown how applying such products to dry skin can lead to Atopic Eczema. In healthcare workers, this is often called Chronic Hand Eczema. The sequence from normal skin to eczema is presented in our digital product Explain Eczema, which is available on execzema.com.

To avoid dry skin on the hands, we provide hand hygiene products which allow the skin to heal itself. A ‘cure’ for this form of dermatitis was unnecessary as inflammation does not occur when the causative ingredients are no longer applied.

It was important to have a hand rub for use when away from a tap. That rub had to contain no alcohol.

It was equally important to have hand washes, one for general cleansing and another for antimicrobial action. It is common for different brands to be used to achieve these two purposes and it is also common for the ingredients in the cleansing product to inactivate the active substance in the antimicrobial product. We overcame that by ensuring these two products were actually the same product, with only a colour difference to differentiate them.

We ‘dialled in the people’ by providing hand hygiene products which left a silky feel to the skin.  People willingly use them to gain that positive feedback loop of wonderful skin.