Safer Care Victoria

Overview

The Safer Together Program is our statewide safety improvement program. It aims to establish a continuously improving learning health system that is safer, more person-centred, sustainable, and delivers better outcomes for Victorians.

We will do this by building and leveraging our capability to know and enable what matters, and support you to deliver what matters, in partnership with consumers, clinicians, health services, system leaders and researchers. 

Through the program, we work with the health sector and consumers to:

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Our goal

About the Chief Mental Health Nurse

About the model

Safewards is a model of care that encourages nurses and clinical staff to:

• reduce conflict and containment within mental health services
• identify and address the causes of behaviours in staff and patients that may result in harm 
• support a culture of safety, respect and inclusion.

We are supporting Victorian mental health services to implement the Safewards Model.