Infection control and prevention

Hand hygiene is a vitally important practice for healthcare workers and has a significant impact on reducing the spread of infections in hospitals; these are often called health care associated or acquired infections. Hand hygiene is a different way of thinking about safety and patient care and involves everyone working together, including patients, visitors and health care workers. Hand hygiene is a key program for Mater and we have invested many resources to improve patient and health care worker safety through improved hand hygiene within our hospitals.