Skip to main content

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.

... Read more...
  • Incident response/review
  • 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.

... Read more...
  • Cardiac

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

... Read more...
  • Innovation and improvement
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. 

... Read more...
  • Incident response/review
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.

... Read more...
  • Incident response/review

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.

... Read more...
  • Quality/safety improvement

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

We want to learn from people who: 

... Read more...
  • Innovation and improvement
  • Cardiac