From the link to UNSW above:

The mandatory national hand hygiene program requires Australian public hospitals to use direct human auditing to establish compliance rates.

A large tertiary Australian teaching hospital previously trialed automated surveillance while simultaneously performing mandatory human audits for 20 minutes daily on a medical and a surgical ward … for each of the 3 quarterly reporting periods for 2014 and 2015.

Conclusions
Mandatory compliance necessitates accuracy that only automated surveillance can achieve, whereas daily hand hygiene ambassadors or reminder technology could harness clinicians' ability to hyperrespond to produce habitual compliance.

So am I reading this right from above link info?

• Australia has a mandatory national hand hygiene program for Australian public hospitals using human auditing.
• The info above is referring to one trial 3 years ago in one hospital to compare human/automated monitoring techniques.

Based on that info, I am not overly concerned about medical hygiene.

More dangerous bacteria found on supermarket trollies, money, public touch screen devices and the sponge near the kitchen sink IMO.

I was in a public toilet once at a shopping centre and was very surprised to see a pharmacist I know leave the toilet cubicle and return to the pharmacy without washing her hands..

I wish I had said to her..you haven't washed your hands!

I have secondary breast cancer in my bones and liver and in May a cancer at the head of my femur pushed it apart and the bone broke.  As I live alone I was told I had to go into respite for 2 weeks.  Also while trying to get a medication to work I was given injections of a new treatment, not only did they not work but the backs of my hands and the whole of my left index finger broke out in horrid sores that needed dressing each day and sometime twice a day.  I was scared I may even loose my index finger it was so bad.

Why am I telling you this well in the nursing home respite room I had 2 of the nurses would not wear gloves when doing my dressings.  I asked them but they said it was OK not to do with gloves, one didn`t even wash her hands either.  I hate complaining but my Jane McGrath nurse advised me to which I did and the DON sat in one day and watched but said nothing in front of me but that nurse never did my dressings again.   I know its not really hospital but it is nursing all the same.  I would have thought for their own health reasons with open bleeding sores they would have used gloves because they only had my word I didn`t have any other health probs.  What if I had AIDS, I don`t but what if I did and never told anyone they would have been in a lot of trouble. 

ThankfullyI`m all OK now and on new meds that not only have heeled my hands but have shrunk the cancer a bit but these nuirses really didn`t help me at all.

Tathra -  Thanks for sharing your story with us. You have certainly been through a lot. I used to care for young men with AIDS. We always wore gloves when tending to their needs. One of the boys asked why I was wearing gloves and I said that it was to protect him from catching any  germs from me. Thats how I handled it. 

Has anyone noticed ,when visiting a doctor's office, the Doctor doesn't wash his hands after each patient?. Well mine doesn't. When we were young ,I remember the Doctor always washed his hands when you came into his office. I also read that in America, the Doctors have been told to not wear a tie when visiting patients as the tie carries a multitude of germs. When you think of it, when was the last time your partner washed his tie? It can be used for wipeing the nose, blocking a sneeze and wiping the mouth. Yuk.

Of late I have had to have some blood taken, had an appointment at professional rooms at Nedlands, so I called in to the local Dracula Rooms. Was met by a male nurse some 7ft tall.    I kid you not.

He was the gentliest of nurses that I have experienced taking blood.  Good humoured and friendly, and the rooms were nice and clean.  No mark on my arm, no feeling of being stabbed.

Unlike two days ago when I had to have more blood taken.  Went to another Branch of the Dracula Organization and was met by a female nurse who left a lot to be desired.   My arm now has a big black bruise on it.  This nurse must have used a knitting needle, it was punched into my flesh and was not pleasant to take the samples.  While looking around the room I thought to myself this could do with a clean, dirty lights and light coverings with a lot of dead flies sitting there for all to see.  I am not impressed, so much so I sent them an email.