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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?  

We want to learn from people who: 

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. 

New resources will help guide parents through difficult decisions if their baby is born extremely premature at 22 to 24 weeks.

Everyone deserves to feel safe in emergency care settings, but this can be challenging when caring for people who are agitated or aggressive. 

Introducing A Pathway to Phase II Cardiac Recovery, a cardiac rehabilitation program outline for clinicians. 
 

Wednesday 16 October is ‘Restart a Heart’ Day, a global campaign to raise awareness on the importance of learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and having access to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in our community. 

We are currently seeking consumers to join our Emergency Care Clinical Network Insight subcommittee.