Your healthcare team will look different depending on your needs, whether you decide to have surgery and where you have your surgery. Also, some job titles and roles will be different from place to place.
Make sure you discuss your needs with your healthcare team so they can ensure you have the right support throughout your entire surgical journey.
Surgery is not right for everyone. It is important you talk to your healthcare team about your treatment options and decide together about your treatment plan.
There are many things that can increase your risk of complications from surgery and affect your treatment options. For example, having low fitness, needing help for daily activities, the medication you take and having other health issues such as heart disease and diabetes.
We are pleased to announce the addition of new metrics into our existing Victorian Cardiovascular Dashboard (VCD).
The new metrics are for:
This latest release of dashboard measures will further support quality improvement in cardiovascular care with your health service.
Louise is a values-driven, strategic and compassionate executive leader, with a reputation for driving quality and safety across large and complex health systems and health services. She is a registered nurse with twenty-five-plus years of experience working across the health sector in both the UK and Australia.
The long awaited Victorian Cardiovascular Dashboard (VCD) will provide a sector wide view of important safety and quality metrics for cardiac and stroke care provided across Victoria. It will draw on multiple data sources to provide regular risk adjusted data, where applicable, to allow for monitoring, tracking improvements and benchmarking health system performance across the state.
The Albury Wodonga region colonoscopy recall is now complete, with our organisation identifying, contacting, reviewing and supporting close to 2,000 patients during the process.
In January, our investigation found that some colonoscopies performed or supervised by a surgeon in the Albury Wodonga region between 2018 and 2022 were incomplete, potentially compromising the accuracy of the resulting diagnoses. This prompted a recall process.