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SCV’s Mental Health Improvement Program is recruiting a Clinical Lead to support the Safety for all: Towards elimination of restrictive practices - Breakthrough Series Collaborative.  

In a highly anticipated breakout session at Giant Steps 22 on Thursday afternoon, Jo Rench, Manager of Psychology at Austin Hospital, outlined three variations of positive psychology programs carried out at Austin Health to improve worker... Read more...

Interested in taking a deep dive into Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying data and using your research skills to compare our experience with overseas programs?

Safety for all is a Mental Health Improvement Program initiative, which will respond to the Royal Commission’s key quality improvement priorities.

Did you know up to 27 per cent of older adults experience frailty and up to 50 per cent are pre-frail globally? People who are frail are also more likely to experience negative health outcomes.

“We used to record people as ‘confused’,” says nurse manager Sarah Jenkin. “Now we write ‘delirium’, and take appropriate action to manage the condition."

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Consumer completed measures can help facilitate a partnership between consumers and mental health clinicians at the point of care and clarify treatment and care goals.

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In Victoria, more than 3000 hip replacements are performed each year. Around 3 per cent of patients who undergo this surgery have an unplanned return to hospital.

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Safer Care Victoria is looking for consumers and carers to join an expert working group tasked with looking at how bed rails are used across inpatient settings in Victorian health services.