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Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition that reduces the heart’s capacity to pump blood around the body. More than 100,000 Australians a year are affected (Australian Institute for Health and Welfare 2021), and it has a 50-75% mortality rate within five years of diagnosis.

What is your experience of returning home after being in hospital with heart failure?  

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We are seeking nine clinicians with a passion for driving positive change for the health of all Victorians to join our 2022-23 Clinical fellows program. 

To round out the Care closer to home package as part of our cardiovascular program of work, we have one last exciting opportunity that is uniquely focused on supporting urgent care centres (UCCs) in regional and rural Victoria. 

From 1 December 2021, all implantable medical devices* will have accompanying information materials for you to pass on to your patients.

Suppliers of implantable medical devices will provide patient information cards and leaflets with their devices.

We are calling on clinicians and consumers to help us develop guidance on non-urgent, elective surgery that will better inform patient choices.

Some non-urgent elective procedures only offer benefits to patients under very specific circumstances.

Children and adolescents with a post-COVID-19 systemic hyperinflammatory syndrome have been reported in Victoria and NSW in association with the current Delta variant.

We are seeking up to 10 health services to participate in an analgesic stewardship pilot program. 

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We're looking for consumers and clinicians to give five hours of their time to help prevent postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) - the leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide.

A new project led by the Florey Institute is using data fro