Übermäßige Personalkosten durch manuelle Infektionskontroll-Dokumentation

Definition

Australian IPC guidance requires documented standard and transmission‑based precautions, PPE use, training records, cleaning and disinfection schedules, outbreak management plans and, in updated versions, explicit traceability for certain processes such as reprocessing of reusable medical devices.[3][4][7] State health IPC policies and RACGP guidance similarly expect practices to keep written protocols, risk assessments, incident logs and audit results.[1][5][6][8] In outpatient settings, these records are often maintained manually by nurses or practice managers in spreadsheets, binders and ad‑hoc forms. Logic-based estimation: a medium‑sized outpatient clinic may spend 4–6 hours per week of registered nurse or practice manager time on IPC documentation (audits, logs, staff training records, policy updates and evidence collation), equivalent to roughly 200–300 hours annually. At a loaded labour cost of AUD 60–80 per hour (including on‑costs), this equates to AUD 12,000–24,000 per year, plus around AUD 3,000–8,000 per year in fragmented efforts by other staff (doctors and reception) answering audit queries and locating records, resulting in a total cost overrun of approximately AUD 15,000–32,000 annually per clinic.

Why This Matters

The Pitch: Outpatient clinics and day procedure centres in Australia 🇦🇺 waste around AUD 15,000–40,000 per year in clinician and admin time on manual infection control documentation. Automating audit schedules, logs, and traceability records converts this into productive clinical capacity.

Affected Stakeholders

Infection Control Nurse / Coordinator, Practice manager, Registered nurses and allied health staff, General practitioners and proceduralists, Reception/administration staff

Related Business Risks