Infection control

Infection prevention and control plays an important role in delivering safe health services. The RACGP Infection prevention and control standards for general practices focus on practice-based risk assessment and staff education and are mandatory for accreditation, aligning with the RACGP Standards 5th edition criterion GP 4.1.

COORDINARE's Infection Control Toolkit for General Practice aims to help practices review their systems to ensure infection control and safe work environments are maintained during the pandemic.

• Quality improvement toolkit: Infection Control

COVID-19 and general practice: Infection prevention& control webinar recordings:

• Session 1 from Monday 30 March 2020 (90 minutes in duration with extended Q&A)
• Session 2 from Wednesday 1 April 2020 (60 minutes in duration)

Please visit Margaret’s website here where you can access newsletters, resources, or request to join her email list.

Other useful infection control resources include:

• The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
• National Infection Control Guidelines
• Hand Hygiene Australiaprovided resources such as fact sheets and posters
• NSW Healthprovides information for the community as well as information, fact sheets and other resources for health professionals such as pandemic preparedness, cough etiquette poster and a hand washing poster
• Winter Wisehas information on how consumers can prepare for the cold and flu season
• Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures course
• The Benchmarque Group
• APNA (Australian Practice Nurse Association)
• Marjen Education Services

Your accreditation provider, AGPAL or GPA, may also have additional resources available. For the latest NSW Health Infectious disease alerts click here.