Dr Jan Gralton1
1Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, New South Wales, 2001, Australia
Biography:
Jan Gralton (BSc, PhD, GradCertHealthPol) is an experienced health policy advisor, who has worked in both healthcare and aged care settings. Jan also has a research background in microbiology and lectures at New York University.
Currently Jan is the manager of the Infection Prevention and Control program at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, which includes the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare, the National Hand Hygiene Initiative, and a number of resources to support organisations to meet infection prevention and control actions of the National Safety and Quality Health Service and National Primary and Community Care Healthcare Standards.
Abstract:
The National Hand Hygiene Initiative was established by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare in 2008 as a multimodal approach to improving healthcare worker compliance in Australia. The Commission is reviewing aspects of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative to ensure that it continues to be a quality improvement toolkit that is relevant to the breadth of the healthcare workforce and the different settings where care is delivered. The role and impact of direct observational auditing is of particular interest in the context of increasing priorities and demands across the health system.