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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.

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

This presentation from webinar 2: surveillance is a fantastic opportunity to learn from two SSI experts about the national SSI programme that all 20 district health boards have signed up to, and how it can help to prevent SSIs.

The Surgical Site Infection Improvement (SSII) programme was established to encourage culture change and practice improvements that better support the prevention of SSIs.

This is the story of Ian Collis who contracted a surgical site infection after undergoing heart surgery.

Surveillance case studies from the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme.

Presentations from the first SSI webinar - the case for change.

This paper by Dr Arthur Morris, Dr Sally Roberts, Nikki Grae and Dr Chris Frampton highlights increased rates of infection following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosed.

This factsheet provides information about how to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) using an evidence-based practice VAP bundle.