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Safer Care Victoria (SCV) has been notified of several sentinel events involving the deterioration of children who have presented to Emergency Departments (EDs) across Victoria with sepsis. Review of these events has identified similar themes. 

We’ve heard about how powerful partnering and co-design are in driving real change – but where do we start? And how do we do it well?

Children in the Emergency Department (ED) deteriorate unexpectedly. Paediatric sentinel events and coroners’ cases have recurring themes related to parent/carers' inability to effectively escalate their concerns about their child's deterioration whilst in the ED.

Ensuring early intervention and preventative care programs focus on improving outcomes for priority maternal and child populations is a key recommendation in the latest maternity and childhood data report.

With the support of Adult Retrieval Victoria, Ambulance Victoria, the Paediatric Clinical Network, Safer Care Victoria is introducing the Paediatric Critical Health Resource Information System (Paediatric CHRIS) on 16 March 2022 across Victoria.

Making it easier for you to find the content you need, all information about the Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI) has now moved to the VAHI portal. 

Safer Care Victoria is seeking expressions of interest for the Chair of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board.

Representing more of the Victorian community than ever before, 14 new members have been appointed to the state’s long-running Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM). 

Despite a challenging year for Victorian healthcare, there have also been many achievements and improvements.

My move to Australia has been long in coming but has happened at last and already I have been made to feel very welcome.