2024
Poster or graphic
This poster about the steps for hand washing can be used in your local World Hand Hygiene Day activities.
2024
Poster or graphic
This poster can be displayed above hand washing sinks in your healthcare setting or workplace to show that there are five easy steps for hand washing.
Everyone can help to improve hand hygiene and reduce the spread of infection.
2024
Presentation
This presentation can be used to support healthcare workers to learn about the importance of hand hygiene on World Hand Hygiene Day.
2024
Other resource
This hand hygiene quiz with answers is for use by healthcare workers including infection prevention and control leads in your local World Hand Hygiene Day activities.
You can use this quiz as a tool to help reinforce hand hygiene practices among colleagues in your healthcare setting.
2024
Newsletter
This issue includes items on pneumonia, infections, health worker wellbeing, diagnostic error in mental health, falls prevention, medication safety, COVID-19, and more.
Also covered are the latest from Clinical Communiqué, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and Australian Health Review along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
World Hand Hygiene Day is a global initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and held on 5 May each year. Show your support by downloading and sharing the content on your website, social networks or within your health service.
You are encouraged to use these resources to raise awareness about how hand hygiene can help save lives by preventing the spread of infection.
2024
Guide, user guide or guidelines
This factsheet provides an introduction to data validation for infection surveillance.
The Commission works on national improvements in safety and quality and we recognise that feedback is essential to improving care.
Public consultation on the Aged Care IPC Guide has now closed and the Commission is carefully considering the feedback received.