Our learning health system
Building a learning health system
How to get involved
As a statewide initiative, the Safer Together Program is designed to offer something for every health service.
Active participation helps to build collective capability and drive system-wide improvement. We encourage services to identify and engage with the opportunities that best match their context, needs, and capacity.
What we offer health services
Through the program we offer a range of supports to help health services strengthen safety and quality of care across Victoria. This includes access to:
About the Safer Together Program
Overview
The Safer Together Program is our statewide safety improvement program. It aims to establish a continuously improving learning health system that is safer, more person-centred, sustainable, and delivers better outcomes for Victorians.
We will do this by building and leveraging our capability to know and enable what matters, and support you to deliver what matters, in partnership with consumers, clinicians, health services, system leaders and researchers.
Through the program, we work with the health sector and consumers to:
Chief Mental Health Nurse
About the Chief Mental Health Nurse
Victoria's Chief Mental Health Nurse provides leadership and promotes collaboration between the Department of Health and the mental health nursing profession.
The Chief Mental Health Nurse represents the profession at all levels of government and across all health service sectors, and promotes recognition of the mental health nursing profession.
The position has a focus on education and training initiatives, promoting best practice standards, workforce planning and development, and professional leadership.