Choosing Wisely Scaling Collaboration
Complete
This was a scaling project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Best care: Guidance for non-urgent elective surgery
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:
Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund
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.
Antibiotic allergy de-labelling program
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.
No unnecessary tests (NUTs)
Complete
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Lead organisation
Eastern Health
Partner
Austin Health
Summary
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.
Hospitals and patients working in unity (HOW-R-U?)
COMPLETE
This was an innovation project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Lead organisation
Bolton Clarke
Partner
Northern Health
Summary
Feelings of social isolation, loneliness and depression are prevalent among people aged 65 years and older and are a growing public health concern.
Strengthening primary care to reduce paediatric outpatient and emergency department referrals
Complete
This was an innovation project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Lead organisation
The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH)
Assessment and care of the jaundiced newborn at home
Complete
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Lead organisation
The Royal Women’s Hospital (the Women’s)
Lower complexity urgent care: a new paradigm for rural health services
Complete
This was an innovation project supported by the former Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Lead organisation
Numurkah District Health Service
North east robotics development
Complete
This was an innovation project supported by the Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund.
Lead organisation
Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW)
Partners
- Charles Sturt University
- Alpha Crucis Group
Summary
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.