Resource library Whare rauemi

The SSII Programme orthopaedic and cardiac data collection forms have been updated (November 2018). Please use these forms to record your data before entering it into the SSII Programme database.

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 presentation captures the voice and themes from the Commission-hosted aged residential care engagement workshops, held in 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.

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.