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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).

This guide provides guidance for the implementation and delivery of the national Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme (SSIIP) for orthopaedic surgery in New Zealand.

This poster summarises the first twelve months of national reporting for the light orthopaedic surgical site infection improvement programme.

This document describes the findings of a review of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Hand Hygiene New Zealand programme.

This document summarises the findings of a survey conducted between June and August 2022 as part of a wider review of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Hand Hygiene New Zealand programme.

This report presents results for the period 1 July to 31 October 2022 including national hand hygiene compliance for 20 health districts and 23 private surgical hospitals (PSHs).

This report describes the approach to and findings of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first national point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections. This information will help us identify targets for quality improvement.

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This article describes the source of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (HA-SAB) in district hospitals.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission worked with Synergia to undertake a stocktake of the current management of sepsis in Aotearoa New Zealand, in April 2022. This report sets out the findings of the stocktake.