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Ambulance Victoria’s Tele-HELP project will provide mental health-related emergency callers with an option to use SMS to initiate a video call...

The Live better! online learning management system will provide an alternative way for patients to access information and resources on how to live with pain day-to-day...

HOW-R-U? will identify older patients admitted to Northern Hospital who are experiencing social isolation and match them with a volunteer who will provide telephone support weekly for 12 weeks after...

The ACDC project will build on Northern Health’s existing ‘Staying Well’ initiative, which focuses on helping people with complex chronic conditions maintain their wellbeing instead of waiting until...

When cardiac arrest occurs outside of hospital, the person who takes the emergency call can be key to determining the patient’s outcome...

Rural Victoria is ageing faster, with older residents having higher rates of disease and injury, poorer health outcomes and dying younger, than those in metropolitan Melbourne...

More than two million Australians report an antibiotic or penicillin allergy. It has been found that 85% of these reported allergies are false and that the allergy can be removed by testing. Having a...

The Melbourne Younger Onset Dementia service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of the few services nationally that can provide the tailored, flexible and expert services to those affected by this...

Delirium is a serious medical condition which can cause disturbed thinking and behaviour and fluctuating consciousness...

Influenza infection during pregnancy can result in severe illness, hospitalisation, premature birth, or other adverse health outcomes for both mothers and their babies...

Safe Haven Café will provide a safe, therapeutic environment to offer respite and peer support with resources made available. The concept has been introduced successfully in the UK where they have...

This project will develop a new model of care where a short procedure for miscarriage management is performed in an outpatient setting under oral sedation and a local anaesthetic block...

The project aims to increase support for GPs to in their care for common childhood conditions, such as mild asthma, simple food allergy, behavioural problems, eczema and recurrent ear infections...

Addressing the barriers to increased uptake and communication of Advance Care Plans would also result in consumers and their families having increased choice and control over end-of-life care...

The Central Pharmacy project is the first step towards a common and shared electronic medication management system. The project will develop a regional clinical governance model that will improve...

This project will implement a nurse-led, but medically supported clinic to safely diagnose patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders, and send them straight to evidence based effective...

This project enables a pathway of care where babies can be assessed and screened for jaundice in the home with a point of care device (TcB) and a subsequent blood test, Serum Bilirubin (SBR) which can...

A large number of people from outlying rural towns are travelling to the regional emergency department (ED) for low complexity urgent care. This project aims to relieve people from uncertainty...

This project will establish a state-of-the-art upper limb rehabilitation program to ensure patients residing in rural and regional areas have access to high quality treatment close to home. This will...

This project will establish an Early Intervention Palliative and Supportive Care Clinic which will improve timely access to care for referred people diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. This...

This project will implement a chronic disease e-technology program which acts as a ‘one-stop shop’ for the detection and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiovascular disease (CVD) and...

Description This project focuses on transferring the management of low risk neutropenic fever in cancer patients from the hospital to the home, by creating standardised pathways and supporting...

This project aims to develop an after-hours telehealth service with a regional emergency department, providing 24 hour access to service Urgent Care Centres located in South Gippsland...

Description This project involves the implementation of virtual fracture clinics to manage patients with simple fractures who present to the emergency department or are referred from primary care to...

Description This project will support the provision of geriatric medicine across inpatient and residential aged care settings. Complementing a face-to-face service, it aims to achieve this through...

Description This project involves the implementation of an alternate service model for elderly falls patients, who are triaged by Ambulance Victoria as not requiring a hospital admission. Within this...

Description This project builds on existing work of Emergency Care Clinical Network to support ‘rapid rule out’ of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in selected patients presenting to...

Description 'Outpatients demand management' will implement an Electronic Referral Management System, as a platform to receive quality referrals and communicate with General Practitioners, combined...

Description 'Improving after hours care at Monash' aims to develop and implement an out-of-hours service model, which includes the application of a task management system to improve efficient and...

Description This project will use big-data predictive analytics to improve access and maximise clinical time to outpatient clinics. By utilising an over booking approach (similar to that used in the...

Description Introducing a clinician-led approach towards reducing tests, treatments and procedures that are not essential to care and which may in fact cause harm. Austin Health aims to be a 'Choosing...

Description The 'Rapid access musculoskeletal care' project will trial the provision of a community-based clinic to assess and support patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. The project aims to...

Description 'No Unnecessary Tests' aims to scale up a successful and proven project at Eastern Health Box Hill Emergency Department focussed on reducing unnecessary tests. A clinician-led approach...

Description This project aims to provide specialist alcohol and other drug support services in a rural community utilising telehealth. The project focusses on building regional capacity through...

Description This project involves the implementation of a specialised cancer survivorship service with close links to the primary care sector. The project aims to improve the quality of survivorship...

Description This project involves the development of a multi-modal communication iPad application to support effective communication with non-English speaking patients, when an interpreter is not...

Description The 'Sepsis Improvement Project' aims to translate evidence-based clinical guidelines for sepsis identification and treatment into practice to educate clinicians, promote improved patient...

Description The implementation of an 'Obstetric Triage Decision Aid' aims to support the consistent, accurate and timely triage of pregnant and postpartum women in both emergency departments and...

Description The 'Medical management of miscarriage at home project' will implement a new pathway of care to support women to have miscarriage managed in the comfort of their own home. This approach...

Description This project involves the use of telehealth to improve access to intensivists in tertiary and level 2 Intensive Care Units, to increase the capability of rural clinicians to care for...

Description The expansion of telemedicine to the patient's home aims to provide outpatient paediatric, diabetes and heart failure consultant services via telehealth, for patients residing at home or...

Description The Responsive Acute Palliative Intervention and Decision Assistance (RAPID ASSIST) Project will pilot an innovative palliative care model to provide patients with rapid and responsive...