The Quality Standards Resource Centre helps extend understanding of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, which take effect from 1 November 2025. The Resource Centre will be updated to reflect key changes made to the draft strengthened Standards. You can search for resources by using keywords, or filtering by standard, outcome, audience and theme. Before using the Resource Centre, please read the terms of use.
Preventing urinary tract infections: recognise dehydration poster
This provider poster is an educational tool is part of the Commission’s resource bundle to improve antibiotic use for urinary tract infections in aged care services.
Preventing urinary tract infections (English) (PDF 268.48 KB)
Arabic - الوقاية من التهابات المسالك البولية (PDF 247.14 KB)
Chinese Simplified - 预防尿路感染 (PDF 379.59 KB)
Chinese Traditional - 預防尿路感染 (PDF 214.94 KB)
Croatian - Sprječavanje infekcija mokraćnog sustava (PDF 216.87 KB)
Dari - جلوگیری از عفونتهای مجاری ادراری (PDF 226.51 KB)
Dinka - Pɛ̈n Tuany ë lɛc (PDF 200.17 KB)
Farsi - پیشگیری از عفونت های مجاری ادرار (PDF 224.74 KB)
French - Prévention des infections urinaires (PDF 202.22 KB)
Greek - Πρόληψη Ουρολοιμώξεων (PDF 190.09 KB)
Indonesian - Mencegah Infeksi Saluran Kemih (PDF 200.34 KB)
Italian - Prevenzione delle infezioni del tratto urinario (PDF 200.45 KB)
Khmer - Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (PDF 208.03 KB)
Korean - 요로 감염 예방 (PDF 205.57 KB)
Pashto - د ادرارو د الرې د انتاناتو مخنیوی (PDF 225.71 KB)
Punjabi - ਪਿਸ਼਼ਾਬ ਨਾਲੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਲਾਗਾਂ ਦੀ ਰੋਕਥਾਮ ਕਰਨਾ (PDF 195.34 KB)
Somali - Ka hortaga Caabuqa Goobta Kaadi mareenka (PDF 211.32 KB)
Spanish - Prevención de las Infecciones del Tracto Urinario (PDF 201.38 KB)
Thai - การป้้องกัันโรคติิดเชื้้อในทางเดิินปััสสาวะ (PDF 202.81 KB)
Tamil - சிறுநீர்ப் பாதைத் தொொற்றுகளைத் தடுத்்தல (PDF 208.2 KB)
Turkish - İdrar Yolu Enfeksiyonlarının Önlenmesi (PDF 204.55 KB)
Urdu - پیشاب کے نظام میں انفیکشنوں کی روک تھام (PDF 228.26 KB)
Vietnamese - Đề phòng Nhiễm trùng đường Tiết niệu (PDF 193.49 KB)
Outbreak Management Plan - stress testing outline
Having a comprehensive and organisation-specific outbreak management plan (OMP) helps your organisation to be prepared for the management of infections and outbreaks within your service. A key part of this readiness is ensuring that your OMP is fit-for-purpose and that everyone across the organisation can implement it if required. One way to maintain readiness and support continuous improvement of your OMP is to run regular drills, or stress tests, of your plan.
Outbreak Management Plan - stress testing outline (PDF 424.34 KB)
Outbreak Management Plan - key features
Outbreak management planning is a key part of infection prevention and control. This document supports both the development of a new outbreak management plan (OMP) and the quality assurance of existing plans. It details common OMP sections to get you started as you tailor your OMP to your service.
This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
Outbreak Management Plan - Key features (PDF 839.81 KB)
User guide to the Clinical Pathway for older people in aged care homes: suspected urinary tract infections
This user guide relates to the 'Clinical Pathway for older people in aged care homes: suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs)'.
Clinical pathways for suspected UTIs forms
These clinical forms are part of the 'Clinical Pathway for older people in aged care homes: suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs)'.
Joint letter from CMO and Commissioner to Board Chairs on winter preparedness 2025
Joint letter from the Chief Medical Officer Professor Anthony Lawler and Commissioner Liz Hefren-Webb to Board Chairs, Residential Aged Care Providers on winter preparedness in residential aged care.
