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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.

SCV’s Mental Health Improvement Program is recruiting one Clinical Lead and two Lived Experience Leads (consumer and carer) to support the Safety for all: Towards elimination of restrictive practices - Breakthrough Series Collaborative.  

In February 2021, SCV published Best Care guidance on 26 elective surgery procedures.

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.

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

We want to learn from people who: 

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.

We are seeking healthcare workers to join our 12-month Improvement fellows program.

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.