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Through the Safer baby collaborative, we’re aiming to significantly reduce the rate of stillbirth across the Victoria.

When patients are unexpectedly harmed or die in a health service, a team of staff come together to find out what happened, why, and how to prevent it from happening again.

Last month, VAHI was pleased to resume provision of monthly Performance Indicators for Coding Quality (PICQ®) numerator reports to public hospitals.

Victorian public health services that are not using the Victorian Health Incident Management System (VHIMS) Central Solution for incident reporting are now considering their options for procuring a new incident and feedback management system.

VAHI has begun looking for a provider to administer the Victorian Healthcare Experience Survey (VHES) program from 2020 onwards. The end of the current contract in June 2020 presents an opportunity to put in place new arrangements with a focus on improving the program.

We are currently seeking consumers to join our Emergency Care Clinical Network Insight subcommittee.

“We used to record people as ‘confused’,” says nurse manager Sarah Jenkin. “Now we write ‘delirium’, and take appropriate action to manage the condition."

We are currently seeking consumers to join our Cardiac Clinical Network committees.

The newly established Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council will oversee, review and monitor perioperative care in Victoria to improve outcomes for patients before, during and after surgical procedures.

This expression of interest is now closed.

Consumer completed measures can help facilitate a partnership between consumers and mental health clinicians at the point of care and clarify treatment and care goals.