Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Week is held during the third week of October each year to highlight the importance of preventing infections. The theme for IPC Week 2025 is A proactive approach to IPC: Identify the risk, Protect patients and the workforce, Control the spread of infection. Everyone has a role in the prevention and control of infections in health care.
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World Hand Hygiene Day is held annually on 5 May. The 'Save Lives: Clean Your Hands' global campaign was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009.
New resources are now available for World Hand Hygiene Day 2025.
Guidance for clinicians on the ten evidence-based quality statements from the clinical care standard, as well as helpful resources.
The Commission has developed new training pathways for Hand Hygiene Auditors (previously called General Auditors) and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators (previously called Gold Standard Auditors).
Annual revalidation is a method of ensuring all Hand Hygiene Auditors and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators remain up to date with their knowledge of the 5 Moments and audit practices. This ensures valid and reliable data for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
This page provides information on Hand Hygiene Auditor Educator Training.
Prevention and control of VRE is an important patient safety issue for Australian healthcare.
Responses have been prepared to frequently asked questions (FAQs) to support auditing and other aspects of implementation of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
Please let us know if you have further questions to include.
Data on hand hygiene compliance are collected by states and territories for all public health service organisations, and by many private health service organisations, and reported nationally three times per year for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
The National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) operates a Help Desk to support users of the NHHI Learning Management System (LMS) and the Hand Hygiene Compliance Application (HHCApp).
The Help Desk team endeavours to respond to your enquiry as quickly as possible. You will receive a response within 5 business days.
A range of promotional materials are available to support implementation of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
There are a number of tools available to support hand hygiene auditing in acute and non-acute healthcare settings.