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.
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- Maternity and newborn
- Paediatric
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.
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In February 2021, SCV published Best Care guidance on 26 elective surgery procedures.
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Launched today, Victorian healthcare is embarking on its biggest improvement program to date.... Read more...
- Quality/safety improvement
Adverse patient safety events are rarely isolated to one health service and much can be learned by sharing review findings.
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Safer Care Victoria is offering a Just Culture toolkit to improve safety culture at participating services and therefore improve patient experiences and outcomes. ... Read more...
- Safety cultures
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.
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Safer Care Victoria is looking for health services to participate in a pilot project for a Falls review tool to help improve outcomes after falls related adverse events.
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What is your experience of returning home after being in hospital with heart failure?
We want to learn from people who:
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- Cardiac