FW: Invitation to make a submission to the NHMRC about the draft Infection Control Guidelines

[Wishart, Michael]

The draft national Infection Control Guidelines are now available for comment to the public. AICA members could either individually send in comments, or contact their State / Territory Association to submit comments as part of a group submission.

Since attachments are not permitted on this discussion list, please visit the website listed below to view the draft guidelines.

http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/consult/aicg.htm

Cheers
Michael

Michael Wishart

Infection Control Coordinator
Quality & Safety Unit | Greenslopes Private Hospital
Newdegate St, Greenslopes QLD 4120
tel: 07 3394 7919 | pager 047 | fax 07 3394 7985

e: WishartM@ramsayhealth.com.au

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—–Original Message—–
Dear Colleagues,

NOTICE OF PROPOSED DRAFT INFECTION CONTROL GUIDELINES

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), in partnership
with the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare (the
Commission), has released for public comment the Australian Infection
Control Guidelines: preventing and managing infection in health care (the
draft Guidelines).

The draft Guidelines have been developed to assist a coordinated approach
to the management of health care associated infection (HAI) in Australia
by supporting the Commission’s other HAI priority program initiatives.

To facilitate this approach, the draft Guidelines are written from a care
delivery perspective, focussing on safety and quality and using a risk
management framework. This approach differs from the current Department ofHealth and Ageing (DoHA) 2004 Infection control guidelines for the
prevention of transmission of infectious diseases in the health care
setting which are disease and setting specific.

You are invited, under paragraph 13(1)(b) of the National Health and
Medical Research Council Act 1992, to make a submission to the NHMRC aboutthe draft guidelines.

How to make your submission

Electronic submissions using the web address icg@nhmrc.gov.au are stronglypreferred.

If this is not possible, please make your submission in writing
(preferably typed or word processed) and submit by mail to:

Stephanie Goodrick
Strategic Partnerships
National Health and Medical Research Council
GPO Box 1421
CANBERRA ACT 2601

Please ensure that the author of the submission and organisation (if
applicable) is clearly stated. If you would like your submission to be
treated as confidential, please indicate this clearly (for example, by
marking CONFIDENTIAL on each page of your written submission). Submissionsmay be subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. All
submissions will have personal contact details removed prior to becoming
publicly available on the NHMRC website.

Please include information sources and references used in your submission
for the NHMRC to consider.

For further information on the draft Guidelines please contact Stephanie
Goodrick on 02 6217 9466.

The closing date for submissions is 10 March 2010

Please find attached a copy of the draft guidelines if you are unable to
access the NHMRC web site.

For more information please go to Consultation page on the NHMRC web site
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/consult/aicg.htm

This information is also available on the home page of the Commission’s
web site under “Latest News” http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/

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