The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
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.
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.
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.
This fact sheet explains how to use the LASA Search tool.
This issue includes items on the forthcoming launch of the Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard, healthcare worker wellbeing, osteoporosis, primary care, medication safety, health systems, hospital-associated infection, staffing, COVID-19, and more.
CEO MESSAGE
On behalf of the Commission, I am delighted to welcome Professor Christine Kilpatrick AO as our new Board Chair for a five-year term.
- Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, CEO