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This fact sheet provides guidance on the use of new and emerging environmental cleaning technologies in Australian healthcare settings.

Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions, the first-line in infection prevention and control in health care. Auditing of cleaning practice is an important part of this process.

This flowchart provides guidance for selecting suitable cleaning product for environmental cleaning in health service organisations.

This factsheet provides guidance on selecting suitable cleaning products for environmental cleaning in health service organisations.

This resource provides information for cleaning staff in health service organisations and aged care services about their important role in providing a safe environment for patients and residents.

The resource supports the needs of small health service organisations to develop, or adapt, environmental cleaning programs to local needs.

Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions; the first-line in infection prevention and control in the healthcare environment. Updated July 2020.

This fact sheet outlines the essential steps required to clean and disinfect ultrasound transducers used for percutaneous procedures. This fact sheet does not provide guidance on the management of specific clinical procedures as this guidance should be developed locally and informed by a risk assessment.

This issue includes items on the cleaning and disinfection of ultrasound transducers, digital health, and more.

Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality &Safety, Journal for Healthcare Quality, HealthcarePapers and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, environmental cleaning, telehealth, whole system quality, quality improvement capacity, medication safety and older patients, care transitions, sepsis, hip fracture and more.

Also covered is the latest issues of BMJ Quality and Safety, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality and Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the forthcoming Fourth Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation, the National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations – consultation paper, sepsis survival, environmental cleaning and infection prevention and control, immunisation, aged care, guidelines, falls and non-slip socks, and more.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, environmental cleaning and infection prevention and control, Clostridioides difficile (CDI) infection, Staphylococcus aureus (SAB) prevention, virtual health care, open disclosure, long-term care, and more.