Our Best Care guidance provides evidence-based information for Victorian healthcare professionals in relation to specific elective surgical procedures which can only be performed under certain circumstances or at certain time intervals.
The Best Care guidance aims to:
The Better Care Victoria (BCV) Innovation Fund, which operated from 2016 to 2020, was established by the Victorian Government to increase access and improve the quality of public healthcare for Victorians.
The fund did this by supporting health services to find new, more efficient and effective ways to deliver healthcare, with a focus on patient-centred innovations.
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Austin Health
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
More than two million Australians report an antibiotic allergy, but studies have shown that 85 per cent of these allergy ‘labels’ are false and can be disproven by allergy testing.
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Eastern Health
Austin Health
Testing is considered ‘unnecessary’ if it is not clinically indicated, shows no evidence of benefitting the patient, and/or is more appropriate to defer to a different setting, such as an outpatient clinic.
This was an innovation project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Bolton Clarke
Northern Health
Feelings of social isolation, loneliness and depression are prevalent among people aged 65 years and older and are a growing public health concern.
This was an innovation project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH)
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
The Royal Women’s Hospital (the Women’s)
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Numurkah District Health Service
This was an innovation project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW)
On average, NHW admits 220 patients with neurological injury or illness per year, with up to 77 per cent of these patients having impaired function of their upper limb.
This project was supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
One in nine patients who presented to the St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) emergency department (ED) from 2015–17 cited mental health as their primary reason for attending.