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Australian and State Government and Regulatory Bodies 

• Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care       
• Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS)                  
• State Government of Victoria, Department of Health, Better Care Victoria       
• State Government of Victoria, Department of Health, Clinicians Health Channel       
• NSW Department of Health       
• Queensland Government, Queensland Health, Surveillance reports, Healthcare associated infections 
• WA Department of Health – Surveillance HISWA     
• Tasmania Health, Tasmanian Infection Prevention and Control Unit (TIPCU)
• Safer Care Victoria 

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Infection Control and Epidemiology Journals 

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 
• Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Journal (US)      
• American Journal of Infection Control (US)       
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (US)
• Journal of Hospital Infection (UK)
• Infection, Disease & Health 
  

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Other Publications/Websites      

• Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (2010)  
• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Online Infection Prevention and Control Modules training Portal - series of educational modules for HCW undertaking infection control activities
• State Government of Victoria, Department of Health, Infectious Diseases (including notification of infectious diseases within Victoria)
• Infection Prevention in Health Services
• Better Health Channel 
• Therapeutic Guidelines – Antibiotic Version 16, 2019
• Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (US)
• Australian Immunisation Handbook
• Victorian health service performance monitoring framework
• National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS) Standards - Standard 3, Preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections 
• Victorian Department of Health, Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) 
• Victorian Department of Health - Cleaning Standards
  
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Associations and Organisations

• Australasian Epidemiological Association (Australia)    
• Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC)
• Infection Prevention & Control Nurses College (IPCNC)
• International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)       
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (International)       
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology (APIC) (US)       
• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) (US)       
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (US)       
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) (US)       
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections - Guidelines (US)   
• Public Health England
• Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) Canada
• Krankenhaus Infektions Surveillance System (KISS)(Germany 
• Baltic Network for Infection Control and Containment of Antibiotic Resistance, and Healthcare Epidemiology (BALTICCARE)       
• Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA)       
• Australian Society of Infectious Diseases (ASID)       
• Healthcare Infection Control Special Interest group (HICSIG)    
• World Health Organisation (WHO)       
• World Health Organisation  Global Alert and response (GAR)   
• Public Health Association Australia (PHAA)
  
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