Noleen Bennett is a senior Infection Prevention and Control consultant, employed at both the Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System (VICNISS) Coordinating Centre and National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NCAS). She oversees multiple aged care surveillance initiatives:
(1) VICNISS Aged Care Infection Indicator Program; 170 public residential aged care homes (RACHs) continuously participate,
(2) Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey: 823 RACHs participated in 2023,
(3) National infection Surveillance Program for Aged Care (NISPAC) project: 64 RACHs participated in the pilot, and
(4) Safe At Home research project. These surveillance programs include a suite of modules that monitor infections and antimicrobial use.