Overview
These guidelines support health service organisations to meet the requirements of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, particularly the Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard.
Contents
The 2021 National Consensus Statement outlines the:
Overview
The Commission provides a range of eLearning modules free of charge to support health service organisations to implement infection prevention and control and hand hygiene workforce training. These include:
The National Clinical Handover Initiative Pilot Program involved 56 hospitals in six jurisdictions, including primary and aged care services.
Pilot Program outcomes
Tools and solutions developed through the pilot program included:
HAI surveillance programs enable hospitals to monitor the outcomes of current practice and provide timely feedback to clinicians to ensure practice improvement and better patient outcomes.
Surveillance topics
Overview
The framework is designed to enable health service organisations and clinicians to communicate openly with patients when health care does not go to plan.
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Two key factors in supporting healthcare professionals are: