Resources

Educate and inspire your surgical teams to adopt the recommended guidance across the surgical pathway.

The OneTogether Quality Improvement Resources are intended to provide practical information for implementing best practice for each of the elements of care across the surgical pathway.

The OneTogether Quality Improvement Resources are intended to provide practical information for implementing best practice for each of the elements of care across the surgical pathway

Learn about the objectives of OneTogether, how we help to reduce the risk of surgical site infections and the associations involved in the collaboration.

The electronic version of our Assessment toolkit enables automatic calculation of infection prevention compliance scores.

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This is the paper version of our Assessment Toolkit for you to print out and use as needed.

Perioperative Warming Decision Guide to help support what pre, intra and post-op actions need to be taken to prevent inadvertant perioperative hypothermia.

The Perioperative Warming Quality Improvement Resource summarises the evidence for temperature monitoring, pre, intra and post-operative warming, plus intravenous and irrigation fluids.

The Surgical Skin Preparation Quality Improvement Resource summarises the evidence for patient washing, hair removal, skin disinfection and the use of incise drapes.

Learn about the latest scientific evidence around theatre ventilation, movement in and out of theatres and the cleaning processes.

A guide about skin preparation and disinfection to help reduce the risk of surgical site infection.

Explore and learn how asepsis and instrument management can impact SSI.