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Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare

National Health and Medical Research Council. Guideline, Australia-wide.

Version: V11.27, published 8 April 2026
Last read: 29 September 2026

The 2019 edition, maintained by NHMRC with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and updated in numbered versions on the Commission's site. The HTML version on MAGICapp can be ahead of the PDF.

What changed

8 April 2026V11.27The Commission's page states that V11.27 was published on 8 April 2026, with updates to section 6.4 and to Table A2.5.

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