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Consumers have an important role to play in infection prevention and control. Take a look at these great resources aimed at keeping you and your family safe and healthy.  Hand Hygiene Hand Hygiene...

We can secure better health outcomes for everyone when consumers and health service organisations work together. Partnering with consumers is about actively working with people who use the healthcare system to ensure that it is safe, high-quality, and meets people’s...

Anti-microbial stewardship (AMS) is a coordinated approach to optimizing the use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs to treat infections effectively while minimizing their overuse and misuse. Healthcare consumers play a crucial role in preventing antibiotic...

Blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) (STDs) are infections that can spread through contact with blood and/or body fluids or during unprotected sexual activity. Blood borne viruses, like HIV and Hepatitis B and C, can be passed...

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Keeping your house clean and reducing the dust and dirt reduces the risk of your loved ones getting sick in the home.  Download the Fact Sheet General cleaning Focus on the most used areas of your home such as the family room, lounge room, kitchen and bathrooms. Use a...

Immunization is a way to protect people from serious diseases by giving them a vaccine, which helps the body build defense against specific infections. Vaccines usually contain a tiny, harmless part of the virus or bacteria that causes the disease, teaching the immune...

How can you protect people you are visiting in a hospital, residential aged care facility or rehabilitation hospital? Download the Fact Sheet All visitors to healthcare facilities are required to adhere to directions and advice of the facility and treating Health Care...

Several kinds of germs (usually bacteria, and occasionally viruses or fungi) are responsible for causing infections associated with health care, either in hospital or in other health care settings. These are known as healthcare associated infections. When you go to...

Staying Healthy at Home Anyone can prevent getting an infection and different seasons bring different risks of infection.  Download the Fact Sheet  Spring and Summer Healthy These are the seasons where we get out of the house and head to the parks, beaches and pools...