Reducing low-value diagnostic pathology, imaging and interventions in Victorian Emergency Departments to improve patient outcomes, lower carbon emissions, and save healthcare costs.
Safer Care Victoria (SCV) and Climate Health Victoria (CHV) are seeking to partner with Victorian public health services. We invite you to participate in a project aimed at ensuring the quality use of diagnostic pathology and imaging across Victorian Emergency Departments (ED). This initiative provides an opportunity to collaborate with other health services to test and implement changes that support clinically appropriate, safe, and high-quality use of these services. In partnership with SCV, CHV and participating health services, the project aims to improve patient outcomes, deliver environmental benefits and utilise healthcare resources more effectively.
This project will be focusing on diagnostic pathology, imaging and interventions such as intravenous cannulations, coagulation and blood gases, and CT KUB imaging requested by ED clinicians as standard practice. Participating health services can choose other investigations to target through this project, outside of these four, that they can propose will improve patient care, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and healthcare costs.
Who can apply
- Applicants must be Victorian public emergency departments. Please note that Urgent Care Centres are not within scope at this stage of the project.
- Health services need to form a multidisciplinary team with a nominated project lead.
How to apply
- Review the Project Information Pack which outlines the Sustainable and Quality use of Diagnostics in Emergency Departments project and expectations of participating health services.
- Complete the Expression of Interest form with your executive sponsor and submit the form by 9:00 am Monday 24 February 2025
Application outcomes will be notified by email within two weeks of application closing date.
Expression of interest form
You can either complete the form online or download the form and email it to us.
Complete the form via email
- Download the form
- Email your submission to valuebasedhealthcare@safercare.vic.gov.au.
For more information on the project, please contact the Value Based Health Care Team, in the Safer Together Program:
- PH: (03) 9285 3594
- Email: valuebasedhealthcare@safercare.vic.gov.au.