Annual revalidation is a method of ensuring all Hand Hygiene Auditors and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators remain up to date with their knowledge of the 5 Moments and audit practices. This ensures valid and reliable data for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
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The Commission wishes to acknowledge the significant contribution of its steering committee members in the development of the Better Care Everywhere program series.
Data on hand hygiene compliance are collected by states and territories for all public health service organisations, and by many private health service organisations, and reported nationally three times per year for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
Falls are a significant cause of potential harm in health care, and are a national safety and quality priority.
Identifying and managing the risk of harm from falls forms part of the Comprehensive Care Standard.
The NHHI LMS hosts the hand hygiene, infection prevention and control modules and hand hygiene auditor online learning.
Lessons learnt from the assessment of health service organisations to the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.
Summary of accreditation outcomes and lessons learnt from the assessment of general practices against the RACGP Standards for general practices (5th edition) and the RACGP Standards for point-of-care testing (5th edition).
Environmentally sustainable infection prevention and control (IPC) practices improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
A number of resources have been identified which are relevant to the Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard.
Enterobacterales is the name given to a family of bacteria that normally lives in the human gut. Some of these bacteria produce enzymes, called carbapenemases, which stop antimicrobials from working against the bacteria. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are resistant to most types of antibiotics. There is a high mortality rate associated with infections caused by CPE due to limited treatment options.
World AMR Awareness Week is held from 18 to 24 November each year.
Information for healthcare services to guide practice and monitor improvement using the clinical care standard, and resources to support implementation.
The Commission has developed a series of resources on infection prevention and control (IPC) for aged care service providers and staff.
These posters show the key steps for standard precautions and when caring for patients who require transmission-based precautions, due to a known or suspected infection.
The NHHI LMS hosts the hand hygiene, infection prevention and control modules and hand hygiene auditor online learning. Health service organisations (excluding aged care) with 10+ staff can register for access to the NHHI LMS.
Registering an organisation allows learners (staff) to link their profiles to your organisation in the NHHI LMS.Organisations do not need to register for its staff (learners) to access the NHHI online learning modules. The organisation name does not appear on any completion certificates.
Responses have been prepared to frequently asked questions (FAQs) from the National Medicines Symposium 2024.
A compendium of resources is available for reference at safetyandquality.gov.au/NMS24.
This page provides information on Hand Hygiene Auditor Educator Training.
MedicineInsight is a national program aimed at improving quality in Australian primary care. It allows general practitioners to reflect on their prescribing patterns and patient care, comparing these with their peers at a local, regional, and national level.