This report will look into NSQHS Standard 3 Preventing and Controlling Healthcare Associated infections, sub-criteria 3.5 Developing, implementing and auditing a hand hygiene program consistent with the current national hand hygiene initiative (ACSQHC 2012: 30) in the context of WHO’s 5 hand hygiene moments.
At present the ACSQHC’s aligned national …show more content…
And lastly, from the micro level: Front line staff, including nurses, doctors, support staff, and service users including patients and their family members. PEST Analysis:
Political influences
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) considers bettering hand hygiene as a nationwide urgency. Furthermore, the World Health Organisation (WHO) (2015) declares Hand hygiene as a quality gauge of safe health care systems. As evidenced in the National Hand Hygiene project, the NSQHS standard 3 hand hygiene has become a significant quality initiative for Australian hospitals.
Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA) regularly audits hospitals for their hand hygiene compliance and revises national data accordingly. Table 2 below indicates the overall hand hygiene compliance rate of 84.1% in 940 Australian hospitals, both the public and private, in June 2016 (HHA, 2016). For ACSQHC accreditation, hospitals need to sustain the hand hygiene compliance rate of 70 per cent (ACSQHC,