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Projects

Search below for time-bound projects led or supported by parts of the VICS network, filtering by ICS region if needed, or see your local ICS for ongoing programs in your area.
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LMICS Grant Funding Program 2021–22

LMICS Grant Funding Program 2021–22

During the 2021–22 financial year, LMICS provided $200,000 of grant funding to 6 organisations providing specialist and generalist cancer services across the Loddon Mallee region. Each project delivered a project report, identifying outputs and outcomes.

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Expanding access to cancer clinical trials in Northern Victoria

Expanding access to cancer clinical trials in Northern Victoria

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting Northern Health to expand access to clinical trials for cancer patients in northern Victoria

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Mercy Health supportive care screening review and expansion

Mercy Health supportive care screening review and expansion

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting a review of supportive care screening practices at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Heidelberg, Melbourne.

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Oncology symptom management reform for chemotherapy patients at Mercy Hospital for Women

Oncology symptom management reform for chemotherapy patients at Mercy Hospital for Women

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting the Mercy Hospital for Women to improve symptom management for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

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Development of an outpatient venetoclax ramp-up pathway

Development of an outpatient venetoclax ramp-up pathway

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting Eastern Health to develop an outpatient pathway for escalating doses of BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax (Venclexta®).

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State of the ART: Improving head and neck cancer outcomes and experiences

State of the ART: Improving head and neck cancer outcomes and experiences

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting Austin Health to improve outcomes and experiences for patients with head and neck cancer.

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Phenotyping palliative care patients likely to benefit from physiotherapy

Phenotyping palliative care patients likely to benefit from physiotherapy

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting Austin Health to identify palliative care patients likely to benefit from physiotherapy.

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VMAT total body irradiation for patients undergoing bone marrow transplant

VMAT total body irradiation for patients undergoing bone marrow transplant

A NEMICS service improvement grant is helping Austin Health implement a novel volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) total-body irradiation for patients undergoing bone marrow transplant

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Oral systemic anticancer treatment program for day oncology at Northern Health

Oral systemic anticancer treatment program for day oncology at Northern Health

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting Northern Health to design and implement a nurse-led monitoring pathway for patients on high-risk anti-cancer therapies

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Comprehensive cancer survivorship care for the diverse community of Northern Health

Comprehensive cancer survivorship care for the diverse community of Northern Health

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting Northern Health to develop an overarching cancer survivorship care program

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Optimising cancer patients’ understanding of medication labels

Optimising cancer patients’ understanding of medication labels

A NEMICS service improvement grant helped Eastern Health develop standardised instruction sentences for commonly dispensed anti-cancer therapeutic and supportive medications

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Interdisciplinary Allied Health Program

Interdisciplinary Allied Health Program

A service improvement grant from NEMICS helped Eastern Health patients with cancer access timely allied health assessment and treatment in their own homes

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Optimising psycho-oncology services for cancer patients (Austin Health)

Optimising psycho-oncology services for cancer patients (Austin Health)

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting work to ascertain the burden of psychological health issues in adult cancer patients undergoing systemic intravenous treatment at Austin Health

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Outpatient monitoring after consolidation chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia

Outpatient monitoring after consolidation chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia

A NEMICS service improvement grant is supporting evaluation of an outpatient-based model of care to monitor patients following chemotherapy consolidation for acute leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

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Outpatient monitoring of patients following consolidation chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia

Outpatient monitoring of patients following consolidation chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia

This project is supported by a NEMICS service improvement grant.

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BRICC ‘Why wait for wellness?’ program evaluation and expansion

BRICC ‘Why wait for wellness?’ program evaluation and expansion

Supported by a GICS grant, this Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre program aims to enhance early access to health education and support for oncology patients in the Grampians region.

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Swan Hill District Health enhanced understanding of Aboriginal cancer care and implementation of the OCP for Aboriginal people with cancer

Swan Hill District Health enhanced understanding of Aboriginal cancer care and implementation of the OCP for Aboriginal people with cancer

LMICS awarded a small grant to Swan Hill District Health (SHDH) to strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer care through implementation of the OCP.

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Strong for Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery (SOCS)

Strong for Oesophagogastric Cancer Surgery (SOCS)

With support from a NEMICS service improvement grant, Austin Health implemented a personalised prehabilitation program.