Safer Care Victoria annual plan 2024–25

In the next year we will:

• partner with consumers and health services to update our Partnering in Healthcare framework
• continue to grow and embed innovation across the healthcare sector
• provide clinical leadership and expertise in developing resources for women and family-centred maternity care and advance the Aboriginal health and wellbeing partnership action plan 2023–25 and treaty readiness
• lead an investigation into women’s pain management involving women with lived experiences and using data insights and research to develop better models of care and service delivery
• support research in Victoria by implementing the Australian Teletrial Program and establishing the HealthResearch VIC network
• continue to progress important mental health reform initiatives through our Mental Health Improvement Program 
• develop guidance to support public health services to address issues affecting public hospital employees' health and wellbeing
• support and embed a whole-of-hospital approach to family violence through the Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence initiative.

In the next year we will:

• release a refreshed Victorian clinical governance framework and support its implementation 
• build capability across the system by continuing to develop and implement our capability framework for quality and safety
• support health service leaders through clinical governance capability training, the clinical governance health check and Clinical Governance Maturity Matrix.

In the next year we will:

• establish an automated and centralised perinatal data storage system to improve data quality and reliability
• enhance monitoring and prevention strategies through improved data accuracy and actionable insights
• continue to improve the reporting processes for the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity and the Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council, allowing more timely review of cases.

In the next year we will:

• enhance safety in Victoria’s healthcare system through the Safer Together program by fostering collaboration, sharing and learning to address systemic issues
• continue to implement Safer Care for Kids, supporting the development of 24/7 virtual paediatric clinical advice to health services and setting up formalised escalation pathways for paediatric care
• continue to provide a robust and timely response to complex quality and safety issues in Victorian health services.