Maureen Canning

Maureen Canning has been an infection control consultant since 2003 with 13 years’ experience managing infection control programs at 2 health services in metro Melbourne. Her current role is Operations Manager for Infection Prevention at Western Health overseeing 5 hospitals within the organisation. Maureen started at Western Health in September 2019 and was seconded into the organisation’s COVID Preparedness team in January 2021 as the ICP Lead for 6 months to provide core risk mitigation guidance and organisational consultation, development of COVID guidelines, PPE training, ICP lead on the PPE Core Group and Clinical Taskforce, PPE innovation, maintaining all of the infection prevention guidance, posters and training resources on the Western Coronavirus microsite, review of different methodologies for P2 respirators and gowns disinfection with a trial of Chlorine dioxide gas disinfection for long sleeved gowns. Western Health was one of the hardest hit organisations during 2020 with the northwest of Melbourne the epicentre for the Victorian 2nd wave.

Maureen is a current ACIPC Practice Guidance Committee member and was a member of Safer Care Victoria Infection Clinical Network – IV device working group for 12 months developing a peripheral intravenous cannulation bundle.