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The Hand Hygiene New Zealand education toolkit has been developed to provide district health board hand hygiene coordinators, champions and others, with a range of ideas and activities for delivering hand hygiene education to health care workers.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s aged residential care (ARC) programme is pleased to share a collection of personal stories about what’s important to people and their families/whānau when entering ARC in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Promotional materials from Hand Hygiene New Zealand

This document provides a practical guide to implementing the Hand Hygiene New Zealand programme within DHBs in New Zealand.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission developed a quality improvement toolkit in 2016 as part of its focus on reducing harm from falls.

Having clean hands before and after contact with patients is one of the most important things health care workers can do to prevent infections. In this video clinicians discuss the '5 moments for hand hygiene' and why hand hygiene is important.

This video provided by the IHI, helps us to understand how we use the driver diagram concept as a tool to describe the system within which we undertake quality improvement activity.

Information on the Infection Prevention and Control 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.

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