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A resource to help you avoid potential skin problems when wearing a mask to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19.

Maintaining good hand care is important for ensuring effective hand hygiene. Frequent hand hygiene is important for preventing the spread of infection, such as COVID-19, however frequent hand hygiene can take a toll on your hands.

The Australasian College of Dermatologists and the Occupational Dermatitis Research and Education Centre have recently developed information resources to support healthcare workers, ensuring that they have healthy hands.

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need to wear a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need to wear a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need to wear a face mask?

Information for you. Do I need to wear a face mask?

The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe how day procedure services can enhance consumers’ involvement in governance, design and performance-monitoring activities.

This fact sheet includes information for clinicians about informed consent in health care. 

Released September 2020

Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions; the first-line in infection prevention and control in the healthcare environment. Updated July 2020.

Information for consumers regarding the use of face masks to protect against the transmission of COVID-19.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance to health service organisations when establishing processes to accurately identify and record Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status.

The tops Tips for Safe Health Care are now available in digital formats to display on screens.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to support health service organisations with implementation of partial easing of restrictions on elective surgery, investigations and procedures and standard and transmission-based infection prevention and control precautions.

This resource was last updated on 5 August 2020.

This fact sheet provides information for clinicians to consider when planning for patient discharge. 

This fact sheet includes information related to Action 5.14 in the NSQHS Standards and should be read in conjunction with Advisory AS18/15: Comprehensive Care Standard: Developing the comprehensive care plan.

This fact sheet highlights specific conditions that impact on health service organisations and which have recently been updated and appear in the Policy - Application for approval under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation (AHSSQA) Scheme to conduct accreditations of health service organisations using the Scheme’s standards.

The fact sheet is designed to support health service organisations to use PICMoRS.