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This recording of webinar 3: surgical antibiotic prophylaxis is a fantastic opportunity to learn from three surgical site infection experts about surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.

This recording of webinar 4: surgical skin preparation is a fantastic opportunity to learn from three surgical site infection experts about surgical skin preparation.

The video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's guidelines for clipping not shaving – the third in a series of interventions.

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.

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

National periprosthetic joint infection sampling and culture guide

Dr Vineet Chopra MBBS, Associate Professor of Medicine and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Health System, gave a presentation to district health boards on peripherally inserted central catheters on 21 March 2018 in Auckland.

Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's workshop Putting prevention first: Leadership and action on preventing healthcare associated infections held on 17 May 2018.

This document sets out the Health Quality & Safety Commission's work through the aged residential care quality improvement programme.

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.