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  1. Playbook for innovation learning

    28 May 2018

    Summary The following playbook is written for innovation practitioners who want to spread innovation skills, methods and tools. It offers 35 diagrams to support talking and thinking about learning for...

  2. Evaluation and Research Support

    26 Mar 2018

    The following toolkit was developed by the Department of Health, Centre for Evaluation and Research and includes how to plan and conduct an evaluation using the department’s evaluation guidelines and...

  3. Behavioural Insights Survey Design Toolkit

    25 Mar 2018

    Learn how people’s responses are influenced by the framing of questions and how to collect meaningful data before you design your next survey...

  4. 2018 Patient experience symposium schedule

    19 Feb 2018

    The program for the 2018 Patient Experience Symposium to be held in Sydney has been released!...

  5. Innovation in action program

    25 Jan 2018

    Innovation in Action is Victoria’s premier conversation about healthcare improvement, innovation and leadership, featuring thourgh leaders and innovators...

  6. TORCH collection graph templates collated

    01 Sep 2016

    Graph templates which can be used to graphically represent data collected to support the implementation of the TORCH tool...

  7. TORCH data collection templates

    01 Sep 2016

    This Excel spreadsheet contains templates to collect data, which are used to support the implementation of the TORCH tool...

  8. TORCH data collection sheets manual

    01 Sep 2016

    This Excel spreadsheet contains data collection sheets which are used to manually gather data to implement the TORCH tool...

  9. TORCH presentation

    01 Sep 2016

    A presentation about the TORCH tool, which priovides an assessment of functional constraints on patient flow, to provide a high level view of bottlenecks within a health service...

  10. TORCH heat map

    01 Sep 2016

    TORCH tool results mapped to functions. A heat map identifies areas which are priorities for further investigation and work...

  11. TORCH Explained: information sheets for health services

    01 Sep 2016

    Communication tools for health services to provide information to those involved in the TORCH tool implementation, within their organisation...

  12. TORCH Checklist A – Checklist of functions

    01 Sep 2016

    A checklist to assist with determining which functions are to be included as part of the TORCH analysis...

  13. Tool for organisations to reveal constraints in health (TORCH) - Kit 3: A guide to data analysis

    01 Sep 2016

    This is the third of three kits designed to guide health services in undertaking the TORCH process. This guide has been prepared to assist with analysing the data, interpreting the findings,...

  14. Tool for organisations to reveal constraints in health (TORCH) - Kit 2: A guide to collecting the data

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide has been prepared to assist with planning the process to complete the TORCH, understanding the resource requirements, communicating about the TORCH and its benefits, understanding the data...

  15. Tool for organisations to reveal constraints in health (TORCH) - Kit 1: A guide to getting started

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide has been prepared to assist with planning the process to complete the TORCH, understanding the resource requirements, communicating about the TORCH and its benefits, understanding the data...

  16. Measuring return on investment of improvement activities - user guide

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide accompanies the ROI tool, which has been developed, with an ROI model specifically designed for measuring return on investment in healthcare settings...

  17. ROI tool – Pharmacy Supply Chain projects

    01 Sep 2016

    This tool has been specifically developed for the Efficiency Through Redesign (ETR) Pharmacy Project, to measure ROI on pharmacy supply chain redesigns...

  18. Return on investment (ROI) tool

    01 Sep 2016

    This ROI tool has been developed, with an ROI model specifically designed for measuring return on investment in healthcare settings...

  19. Measuring and creating capability for improvement in health services - Health ICQ fact sheet

    01 Sep 2016

    A fact sheet which describes what the Health Improvement Capability Quotient (Health ICQ) tool is, why it was developed and the benefits of using the tool...

  20. Health ICQ FAQ

    01 Sep 2016

    This document is designed to support health services with the implementation of the Health Improvement Capability Quotient tool (Health ICQ)...

  21. Health ICQ Tool

    01 Sep 2016

    The Health Improvement Capability Quotient tool (Health ICQ) has been developed to enable health services to assess and monitor their capability to instigate, drive and sustain an improvement approach...

  22. Health ICQ Tool Guide

    01 Sep 2016

    The Health Improvement Capability Quotient tool (Health ICQ) guide has been developed to support health services to implement the Health ICQ tool and interpret the findings...

  23. A guide to surgical services redesign measures for improvement

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide focuses on process redesign of surgical services...

  24. Emergency department redesign measures for improvement guide

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide focuses on process redesign of the emergency department (ED). It provides detailed and high-level emergency department process maps and a variety of recommended measures for emergency...

  25. Guide for redesign measures for improvement for specialist clinics

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide is designed for use by multidisciplinary health service staff, who may or may not be new to process redesign, to improve the care and experience of patients requiring specialist clinic...

  26. A guide to chemotherapy day unit redesign measures for improvement

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide focuses on redesign of ambulatory chemotherapy services, referred to universally as chemotherapy (chemo) day units (CDUs)...

  27. Introduction to process redesign

    01 Sep 2016

    This guide is one of a series of documents that has been developed to assist health services with redesign work...

  28. Response to Minister's Letter of Expectations

    01 Sep 2016

    A letter from the Better Care Victoria Board Chairperson to the Minister for Health, in response to the Minister's Letter of Expectations...

  29. Minister for Health's Letter of Expectations

    01 Sep 2016

    Details Publication Type Document Date Published 30 May 2016 Size 3 pages Available format PDF, DOCX...

  30. Travis Review - increasing the capacity of the Victorian public hospital system for better patient outcomes

    01 Sep 2016

    Summary In 2014 the Victorian Government appointed independent expert Dr Doug Travis, surgeon and former president of the Australian Medical Association Victoria, to conduct a statewide census of bed...