After four years of extensive consultation with consumers, primary and community healthcare providers and other key stakeholders, The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare released the Primary and Community Healthcare Standards – the first nationally consistent safety and quality standards.
You diligently wash your hands and wipe down surfaces to ensure your clients' safety. However, common hygiene solutions like paper head sheets or towels are letting you down. These standard practices aren't protective enough, put your clients at risk of infection, cause discomfort and contribute to waste.
Whether you practice massage, acupuncture, physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy or other treatments, here's how the industry's popular solutions fail in duty of care, customer experience and environmental impact.