Safer Care Victoria

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. 

Complete

This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.

Lead organisation

Austin Health

Partner

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Summary

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.