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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.

Adverse patient safety events are rarely isolated to one health service and much can be learned by sharing review findings. 

Going beyond blaming human error, health services are encouraged to dive deep into the contributing factors behind the most serious cases of patient harm in Victoria.

Patients who are seriously harmed in hospitals will receive a genuine apology, understand what happened and why, and be part of future improvements – thanks to legislative amendments passed by Parliament yesterday.

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.

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.

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.