Introduction
Hand Hygiene New Zealand (HHNZ) is a nationalquality improvement programme funded since June 2011 by the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQ & SC). The goal ofHHNZ is to use the World Health Organization (WHO) 5 Moments model to improve hand hygiene compliance nationally. During its first year, HHNZ has benefitted enormously from support provided by the Hand Hygiene Australia (HHA) programme. Benefits have included auditor training sessions in NZ led by HHA auditors, use of the HHA Smartphone auditing application and the HHAcomputerised data management system.