Caesarean section surgical site infections in Victorian hospital
View more View lessOctober 2022
In this webinar, we explored Victorian data regarding surgical site infection following Caesarean sections, for the period 2019 to 2021, and discussed the clinical practices and programs used to reduce SSI risk in antenatal and post-partum periods.
Cervical Length Measurement
View more View lessOctober 2024
Clinical Conversation: Movements really do matter
View more View lessHear Dr Billie Bradford highlight fetal movement awareness. This is one of the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence’s key strategies to reduce stillbirths. Dr Billie presents the updated clinical practice guideline for management of decreased fetal movements, highlighting key takeaways for pregnant women and clinicians.
Congenital syphilis
View more View lessDecember 2022
Hear updates on the concerning epidemiology of congenital syphilis in Victoria; the patient themes identified, and the important elements of pregnancy diagnostics. Learn about management in pregnancy, including recommended treatments and new guidelines, and the role of the Victorian Investigation of Complex STIs (VICS) team and near misses considered.
Decision making around timing of birth
View more View lessSeptember 2023
Dhelkaya Health - learnings from a new maternity model of care
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June 2023
Dhelkaya Health (Castlemaine) offers low risk pregnant women access to local maternity care in a rural setting. In May 2021 our maternity service re-commenced under a new continuity of care model following a 12-month suspension of the service. We are proud of this achievement when it is a common occurrence for small services to close their maternity services. Twelve months after the re-instatement of Dhelkaya Health’s maternity service La Trobe University was engaged to undertake an evaluation of the new model of care. The evaluation was conducted with three areas of focus: an exploration of key stakeholder views, an exploration of maternity consumers views, and an audit of clinical outcomes. From these three areas eighteen recommendations were made. Listen to our journey and the recommendations made by the evaluation.
Extreme prematurity
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May 2022
Our webinar provides background to the development of SCV's Extreme prematurity guidance and highlights the components and resources available including management flowcharts and parent information sheets.
A multidisciplinary panel of perinatal clinicians discusses the clinical, logistical and ethical challenges in caring for women and babies at 22-25 weeks’ gestation, and proposes strategies to ensure consistency in practice across all perinatal settings statewide to optimise outcomes.
Fetal Growth Restriction
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October 2023
Interventions for vaccine preventable infections in pregnancy
View more View lessAugust 2022
This webinar explores Interventions for vaccine preventable infections (influenza, pertussis and hepatitis B) in pregnancy, presents research findings from three studies, and discusses opportunities for improvement in delivery of influenza, pertussis, and hepatitis B vaccinations and care to women and their infants to prevent infection during and post pregnancy in Victoria.
Late Onset Fetal Growth Restriction
View more View lessMarch 2025
The Myths and Mysteries of Managing Third Trimester Fetal Growth Restriction.
Perineal Protection
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April 2022
This webinar provides an overview of the SCV Perineal Protection Project highlighting the success of consumer engagement. We also spotlight the ACSQHC Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard and provide an update on the outcomes of the SCV Better Births for Women Collaborative.
Perineal protection
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April 2022
This webinar provides an overview of the SCV Perineal Protection Project highlighting the success of consumer engagement. We also spotlight the ACSQHC Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard and provide an update on the outcomes of the SCV Better Births for Women Collaborative.
Placenta previa
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February 2024
Sustaining improvement lessons learned from health services
View more View lessJuly 2023
During 2019 to 2021, Safer Care Victoria (SCV) teamed up with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Victorian health services to improve outcomes for mothers and their babies, using the IHI’s proven Model for Improvement across two collaboratives. SCV worked in partnership with maternity services and tested and spread evidence-based care bundles to reduce third- and fourth-degree perineal tear rates and to reduce the rates of stillbirth.
The Maternity and Newborn Learning Health Network is committed to drive sustained improvements from previous SCV led large-scale maternity projects and invited two of those maternity services involved in SCV’s Better Births and Safer Baby collaboratives to share their lessons learned on sustaining these improvement initiatives.
Hear how Western Health has:
- used the learnings from IHI’s Model for Improvement to implement clinical practice change
- adapted the Women’s Healthcare Australasia Perineal Protection Bundle to develop their unique SUPPORT project
- developed an internal Perineal Dashboard as a reliable source of real-time data.
Hear how Monash Health has:
- effectively used the Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) Safer Baby Bundle to reduce avoidable stillbirths at their health service
- improved reporting and response to reduced fetal movements in pregnancy
- improved shared decision making about timing of birth.