Resource library

Information from organisations including the Ministry of Health, on hand hygiene practices for staff and children in schools.

Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission and Hand Hygiene New Zealand's half-day workshop on hand hygiene, held in Auckland on 15 October 2017.

Tool for health providers to support review of adverse events involving surgical site infections.

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 guide is for DHBs to enable consistent reporting on HA-SAB, contributing to accurate national data and reliable information for quality improvement activities.

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.

In this webinar held in February 2023, presenters from Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission, Observatory Village Lifecare and HealthCERT presented on optimising the use of antibiotics in the management of UTI in aged residential care.

The following resources are available for World Hand Hygiene Day 2023 to promote good hand hygiene behaviour.

This report presents results for the period 1 November to 28 February 2023 including national hand hygiene compliance for 20 health districts and 23 private surgical hospitals (PSHs).