Public health

The practitioner helps promote the community's health by preventing and controlling infection and disease, by education and, where it applies, by screening. Good practice means the practitioner: (a) understands and applies public health principles (education and promotion of health, prevention and control of infection and disease, screening) using the best evidence; (b) takes part in efforts to promote community health, including effective infection prevention and control and appropriate antimicrobial use to limit resistance; and (c) knows their duties in disease prevention, including screening and notifying notifiable diseases.

• Practice infection prevention and control procedures and audit results
• Notifiable disease notifications sent to the public health unit with dates
• Antimicrobial prescribing records reviewed against guidelines
• Screening recall system records where the profession offers screening

• No infection control audit
• Notifiable conditions diagnosed but not notified
• Antibiotics prescribed without indication