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Healthcare-associated infections

Figure 1: Hand hygiene compliance rates

Month	Compliance rate in NSW	Compliance rate nationally
April 2010	61.7	64
August 2010	68.5	67
November 2010	71.6	68.3
March 2011	71.8	68.7
June 2011	74.7	71.3
October 2011	75.9	72.6
March 2012	76.9	73.8
June 2012	78.9	75.7
October 2012	79.3	76.4
March 2013	79.6	76.9
June 2013	80.4	78.3
October 2013	81.1	79
March 2014	81.6	80.3
June 2014	83	81
October 2014	83.4	81.9
March 2015	83.5	82.2
June 2015	84.1	82.8
October 2015	84.1	83.2
March 2016	84.8	84

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Locally acquired hepatitis E in NSW

Figure 1: Number of Hepatitis E notifications in Australia by State and Territory from 2005 to 2014

Year	ACT	NSW	NT	QLD	SA	VIC	WA	Australia
2005	2	7	0	8	0	11	2	30
2006	2	10	0	2	1	8	1	24
2007	1	8	0	3	0	6	0	18
2008	0	14	3	7	0	14	6	44
2009	0	17	0	3	0	8	5	33
2010	2	14	0	7	0	11	3	37
2011	2	21	0	6	0	8	4	41
2012	1	10	0	6	0	14	1	32
2013	1	19	0	2	0	8	4	34
2014	1	38	0	7	0	11	0	57

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Figure 2: Hepatitis E notifications in Australia by age group and gender in 2014

Age Group	Female	Male	Total
0-1	0	0	0
5-9	0	0	0
10-14	0	0	0
15-19	0	0	0
20-24	4	2	6
25-29	2	2	4
30-34	4	4	8
35-39	0	3	3
40-44	1	3	4
45-49	2	5	7
50-54	1	1	2
55-59	2	2	4
60-64	5	2	7
65-69	2	5	7
70-74	2	0	2
75-79	0	2	2
80-84	0	0	0
85+	0	0	0

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Tuberculosis

Figure 1: Number and rate of Tuberculosis notifications in NSW, 1990-2013

Year	Number of confirmed TB cases per year	Number of TB cases per 100,000
1995	414	6.74
1996	446	7.19
1997	411	6.53
1998	391	6.17
1999	496	7.74
2000	431	6.64
2001	434	6.65
2002	451	6.85
2003	387	5.85
2004	420	6.30
2005	446	6.65
2006	476	7.06
2007	447	6.53
2008	498	7.17
2009	515	7.30
2010	510	7.10
2011	540	7.48
2012	470	6.42
2013	443	5.98

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The NSW Antenatal Pertussis Vaccination Program

Figure 1: Number of pertussis cases in NSW by month of notification from 1 January 2004 to 30 June 2016

Year	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
2004	287	201	196	194	184	234	239	306	526	438	426	343
2005	323	294	322	308	431	560	709	770	728	535	514	385
2006	421	348	429	336	421	410	658	742	784	350	103	60
2007	119	145	100	96	158	171	207	194	175	249	258	199
2008	232	195	226	288	301	337	436	507	736	1124	1730	2003
2009	1965	1843	1870	1426	1279	987	645	619	644	577	625	590
2010	554	486	399	304	361	341	371	548	925	1257	1889	1670
2011	1493	1255	1109	874	1123	930	839	1168	1316	1125	1194	992
2012	873	758	571	387	628	360	392	459	404	393	448	332
2013	296	240	148	162	212	137	176	179	197	206	218	208
2014	161	184	147	105	151	142	215	253	286	404	467	536
2015	501	536	559	536	658	809	858	1156	1155	1520	2030	1765
2016	1405	1173	1015	721	693	632	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Figure 2: Pertussis notifications in NSW by age group June 2014 to June 2016

	<1 year	1 year	2-4 years	5-9 years	10-14 years	15-24 years	25-44 years	45-64 years	>65 years
June 2016	30	19	70	167	112	49	87	75	23
May 2016	34	27	59	183	100	59	118	80	33
April 2016	26	33	87	171	116	60	116	79	33
March 2016	39	37	153	245	177	84	157	87	36
February 2016	57	57	205	214	160	90	203	124	63
January 2015	50	62	194	327	239	114	194	146	79
December 2015	55	56	185	521	391	155	185	160	57
November 2015	43	44	186	583	562	175	221	157	59
October 2015	44	57	142	350	354	123	186	186	78
September 2015	36	24	73	283	270	93	175	138	63
August 2015	39	26	96	277	219	105	153	169	72
July 2015	22	19	75	172	182	60	160	117	51
June 2015	16	14	48	210	203	80	102	95	41
May 2015	14	15	62	170	148	45	85	85	34
April 2015	22	22	46	122	93	42	75	76	38
March 2015	13	17	64	138	114	39	79	62	33
February 2015	23	21	110	98	66	39	82	62	35
January 2015	17	22	68	116	73	27	64	73	41
December 2014	9	11	40	167	130	24	64	63	27
November 2014	13	11	32	123	99	33	58	67	31
October 2014	15	11	27	76	66	36	63	67	43
September 2014	6	1	16	57	48	14	47	59	38
August 2014	3	1	7	47	35	11	48	61	40
July 2014	7	1	9	26	23	16	49	47	37
June 2014	2	4	16	17	14	12	21	31	25
Total	635	612	2070	4860	3994	1585	2792	2366	1110

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Healthcare-associated infections

Figure 1: Hand hygiene compliance rates

Locally acquired hepatitis E in NSW

Figure 1: Number of Hepatitis E notifications in Australia by State and Territory from 2005 to 2014

Figure 2: Hepatitis E notifications in Australia by age group and gender in 2014

Tuberculosis

Figure 1: Number and rate of Tuberculosis notifications in NSW, 1990-2013

The NSW Antenatal Pertussis Vaccination Program

Figure 1: Number of pertussis cases in NSW by month of notification from 1 January 2004 to 30 June 2016

Figure 2: Pertussis notifications in NSW by age group June 2014 to June 2016