Infection Control is critically important to the effective provision and management of healthcare services. The results of several studies suggest an overall lack of understanding of the components that make up informed infection control care. Hospital-acquired infections are often related to inappropriate patient care practices. This may be due largely to non-compliance with infection control policies, which in turn is attributed to poor knowledge, a lack of motivation and low awareness of the need for infection control. It is important, therefore, that infection control personnel understand what factors influence compliance and how compliance can best be achieved. A review of nosocomial infection control indicate that the incidence and subsequent cost of hospital infections can be reduced significantly by implementing an active infection control audit programme.