The Future Health Today project aims to enhance chronic disease management through the Future Health Today (FHT) implementation program – a new clinical software tool, coupled with integrated tertiary health service support, to assist general practitioners to screen, diagnose and manage heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease before complications occur.
Safer Care Victoria (SCV) and the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM) have released a joint position statement on unattended or freebirths.
The Antibiotic Prescribing Excellence in Primary Care (APEX-PC) project aims to increase antibiotic prescribing concordance with evidence-based guidelines (Therapeutic Guidelines) for selected common infections. This will allow Victorians to receive safe and effective antibiotics.
We have partnered with Climate Health Victoria (CHV) to lead the delivery of a project aimed at promoting the quality use of diagnostic pathology, imaging and interventions in Victorian Emergency Departments.
The Discharge Optimisation for Planned Surgery project is focused on making the discharge process better for patients having surgery in Victoria. Our goal is to shorten the time patients spend in the hospital and make sure they leave as soon as it’s safe for them.
The Safer Medicines at Transitions of Care Collaborative aims to reduce 30-day unplanned re-admissions from participating wards/units by improving the management of medicines to empower consumers to safely transition from hospital to home.
This will be achieved through 4 key improvements:
The Victorian Sepsis Program aims to improve the management of sepsis by supporting Victorian Health Services to implement consistent, evidenced based practice to ensure high quality care provision and reduction in sepsis-related harm.
The Check Again Network aims to ensure Victorians have access to safe and suitable antibiotics. This will be done by starting or improving programs to assess and test penicillin allergies in hospitals across Victoria.
This project aims to prevent blood clots and support management of blood-thinning medicines for patients in hospital.
The project has 2 streams:
This project aims to reduce overall Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) infections by improving:
Reducing this hospital acquired complication and improving management may reduce the length of stay and potentially other complications, while improving patient outcomes and experience.