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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. 

A new project led by the Florey Institute is using data fro

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. 

This year for National Stroke Week (2–8 September 2019) we’re highlighting some of the ways that we’re improving outcomes for stroke patients in Victoria.

Establishing new key performance indicators (KPI) for dialysis and transplantation - and refining existing measures - are among the recommendations from a review of our renal KPI program.

We are currently seeking consumers to join our Cardiac Clinical Network committees.

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