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Last Updated
20 Mar 2025
Last Updated
20 Mar 2025

Sentinel event portal FAQs

We are making it easier for you to manage sentinel events. From 9 August 2021, all sentinel event notifications and reporting will be completed through a new sentinel event portal. Read more

Transitioning to new online portal

Why is the process changing?

The sentinel events portal is making it easier for health services to let us know about adverse patient safety events. It allows you to:

Jane Munro

Jane is a paediatric rheumatologist and head of rheumatology at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and senior research fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Centre.

Jane is also on the Victorian Government COVID Taskforce for healthcare worker infection prevention and wellbeing, and is a collaborator on the Pandemic Kindness Movement project.

Noni Bourke

B App Sc (Speech Pathology), Grad Cert Gerontology, Grad Cert Health Professional Education, Dip Project Management, Masters Health Services Management 

Noni has more than 30 years’ experience in public health, working initially as a speech pathologist and then within quality and safety across acute, sub-acute, aged care and community health services. She has worked in clinical and leadership roles in metropolitan, rural and remote health services.

Rhianna Perkin

Service Design Manager and Counselling Psychologist, EACH    

Rhianna Perkin is a service design manager at EACH in mental health, alcohol and other drugs, homelessness and youth services. She is also a counselling psychologist with a private practice offering supervision, coaching and consultation.  

Rhianna is passionate about working with individuals, teams, organizations and systems around creating sustainable change, adaptive leadership and safe, supportive and effective workplaces.

Owen Roodenburg

Intensivist and Director of Intensive Care Services, Eastern Health    

Owen is a systems thinker, and passionate about understanding people and supporting health professionals to thrive. Owen has supervised training, managed high performing teams, undertaken collaborative workplace redesign, delivered health worker Leadership training in Australian and internationally, and advocates locally and widely for workplace wellbeing.

Kylie McKenzie

Clinical psychologist and clinical manager of psychology from Ballarat Health Services

Kylie is a Clinical Psychologist with twenty years’ experience in a regional public hospital setting. Kylie’s clinical work is focused on mental health and chronic illness and she leads a team of Clinical Psychologists and Clinical Neuropsychologists at Ballarat Health Services. Kylie has a particular interest in collaborative health care practice and is an active member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Jess Kennedy

Respiratory and Sleep Physician, PhD Student    

Not afraid of a challenge, Jess is undertaking her PhD on the workplace factors that influence doctor’s health & wellbeing. Jess also specialises in healthcare improvement, having completed the ACHS Improvement Academy Lead and IHI Joy in Work training and has worked on process improvements and clinician engagement on major and minor hospital transformation initiatives.

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