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Mary (not her real name) shares a close call with a healthcare-associated infection.

Beth shares her personal story of developing a healthcare-associated infection caused by a medical device to highlight the impact these infections can have on patients and their whānau.

This report summarises results from the first 12 months of continuous ongoing surveillance of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, across all districts of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

This report summarises results from two years of this surveillance across all districts of Te Whatu Ora | Health New Zealand, from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2024.

This presentation was developed as a training tool for infection prevention and control professionals in public hospitals who collect HA-SAB source data and submit to the Commission.

This article presents the findings from the first national point prevalence survey of all district hospitals, undertaken by the Health Quality & Safety Commission in 2021.

Presentations from the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme champions meetings are available to download on this page.

This report presents results for the period 1 November to 28 February 2023 including national hand hygiene compliance for 19 health districts and 23 private surgical hospitals (PSHs).

This document has been produced to encourage health care professionals to use skin antisepsis preparation more effectively to improve the safety and quality of care that patients receive.

Morris AJ, Panting AL, Roberts SA, Shuker C, Merry A
New Zealand Medical Journal