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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 of Health 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 about the draft guidelines.

How to make your submission

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

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). Submissions may 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/

Natasha Murray
Commission Liaison Officer
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care