Healthcare can be a complex system and current approaches to change don’t always lead to improvement. Together, we need to find new ways of addressing the needs of patients, carers, and healthcare workers to ensure that we continue to deliver the best care.

Our aim is to:

  • Inspire frontline healthcare workers to use new ways to address healthcare problems, and to enable them to build innovation skills.
  • Connect healthcare workers with established and emerging innovation experts from universities, industry and start-ups.

Edwina Buckle: Driving Innovation from the Frontlines of Healthcare

Edwina Buckle, Strategic Partnerships and Impact Manager at Raising Children Network, brings a thoughtful and future-focused lens to health-led innovation. Edwina champions the vital role of frontline healthcare workers in shaping and leading transformative change.  She underscores the importance of empowering clinicians to engage with innovation and highlights the value of strong collaboration between healthcare providers and the broader innovation ecosystem. Through these partnerships, Edwina believes we can unlock impactful, sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for patients and communities alike.

Learning and development

Online training

Learn about the foundations of medical technology innovation.

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Innovation webinars

Watch our webinars to learn how innovation and innovation culture can improve healthcare service, delivery and safety.

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Partnerships

Safer Care Innovation works closely with partners within healthcare and industry to address healthcare challenges as a collective.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a crucial partner and works with the innovation team to deliver the Health Innovators Program (HIP). This program was launched in 2023 and is a bespoke, first of its kind in Victoria, program designed to build capability and address local clinical problems with an innovative lens. Clinicians from health services across the state who are experiencing a challenge in their clinical work come together to collaborate, co-design and identify innovative solutions.  The program is based on the IHI Innovation System 90 Day Cycle designed to ensure engagement, fast paced delivery and an outcome after 90 days. In addition we work closely with IHI to deliver further Innovation Capability uplift for the entire sector, see the webinars below.

The Australian MedTech Manufacturing Centre – in partnership with Safer Care Victoria – led the Health-Led Manufacturing Innovation Program (HMIP) pilot. The program created new collaborations between clinical and non-clinical staff, researchers, MedTech innovators and manufacturers to identify solutions to health challenges. 

The Australian MedTech Manufacturing Centre and Safer Care Victoria engaged 4 partner organisations, who delivered targeted programs.

Medtech Challenge Workshops: Strengthening collaboration and connections between clinicians and industry to improve the likelihood that new products meet the needs of the medical system. 

LivingAT Health Innovation Challenge (Swinburne):

  • identifying and design products that can be manufactured in Victoria to assist people with diverse ability to live independently and support their health outcomes with local innovations.
  • exploring how the  built environment might prevent or actively support people experiencing delirium. For more information, read the Delirium Built Environment white paper. 

Regional Innovation Acceleration Program: identifying and supporting early-stage venture creation that addresses unmet medical needs.

MedTech Commercialisation Advancement Program: bringing together regulatory and reimbursement specialists, health economists and MedTech manufacturers to accelerate the commercialisation of eligible projects.

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