Resource library

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.

Information on the Infection Prevention and Control programme.

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

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.

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 philosophy of care, Eden Principles and code of rights and conduct from Enliven.

Consumer leaflet for patients about preventing infection after surgery.

Findings from the August 2016 survey conducted in district health boards (DHBs) to gain a better understanding of their approach in delivering the HHNZ programme.