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In 2023, PICS led a review of the 2014 Capability Framework for Victorian Children’s Cancer Services and current literature informing best practice.
PICS evaluated the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Home-Based pre/post-Hydration program, to understand impacts and identify further areas for improvement.
Exercise and Cancer Program ‘A collaborative approach to provide prescriptive exercise outside of the healthcare setting’.
An early intervention to assist carers of advanced cancer patients in hospital discharge and the transition home.
The Optimising Vulva Wound Management Project aimed to reduce the high rates of wound infection and breakdown amongst women after surgery for vulvar cancers.
Address the needs of the older person in routine cancer care by supporting health services to implement geriatric oncology models of care.
Evaluation of a prostate cancer nurse-led care model to maximise sexual function recovery for men post-prostate cancer treatment.
Scope and build an informed model for an First Nations Cancer Coordinator (FNCC) to serve the needs of Aboriginal Victorians with cancer, through; mapping access to care, collating existing literature; and engaging existing community advisory group
Aims to develop patient information materials to better explain what patients can expect if their eye treatment is by plaque brachytherapy.
This project aims to develop a myeloma virtual chemotherapy day unit (CDU) ‘chair’ at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, to provide remote care to people with myeloma in their own homes and communities.
The toolkit will enable health services to develop prehabilitation services leading to improved patient outcomes for those undergoing major colorectal, gastrointestinal and gynaecological surgery.
This initiative sought to replicate this approach by developing a prehabilitation model of care for patients undergoing RT for head and neck cancer.
A pilot of the Colorectal Cancer Partnered Survivorship Care Plan, which guides early-stage CRC survivors as they transition from active treatment to surveillance care, is underway at Monash Health.
