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Seven videos discuss different techniques to tackling hand hygiene problems and other challenging issues.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s aged residential care (ARC) programme is pleased to share a collection of personal stories about what’s important to people and their families/whānau when entering ARC in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This video provided by the IHI, helps us to understand how we use the driver diagram concept as a tool to describe the system within which we undertake quality improvement activity.

Watch Dr Robert Lloyd from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), show how to use a 'family of measures' to monitor the impact of quality improvement work.

National periprosthetic joint infection sampling and culture guide

A report from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (commissioned by the Health Quality & Safety Commission).

The SSII Programme orthopaedic and cardiac data collection forms have been updated (November 2018). Please use these forms to record your data before entering it into the SSII Programme database.

Use this data collection tool for inputting data from patient deterioration audits and for sharing the results.

The Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's frequently asked questions covers general programme queries, questions about data collection, and technical queries. The page is updated on a regular basis to incorporate new questions.

This document has been produced to encourage health care professionals to clip, not shave, hair prior to surgery to improve the safety and quality of care that patients receive.