Message from The Secretary, Victorian Department of Health It’s a real privilege to share a few words in this inaugural edition of Loddon Mallee Health Network’s regional newsletter. I’m so pleased to see the network finding another way to share news and knowledge, and create connections. Informing a vision for a safer and more effective National Health Service (NHS), in a review of 14 NHS Trusts nearly 10 years ago, British surgeon Sir Bruce Keogh said, “No hospital, however big, small, or remote, [should] be an island. Professional, academic and managerial isolation will be a thing of the past.” The last couple of years have certainly tested the mettle of our health sector. But they’ve also revealed what can be achieved when health service providers at all levels come together, determined to build those bridges. There is one single reason for doing this; the patient. Better collaboration and coordination across the sector is better for the people we care for. But don’t take my word for it. Warwick is a Loddon Mallee resident who ended up in hospital in Melbourne during the height of the pandemic. Here’s what he had to say about his experience: “One of our friends – a nurse at Swan Hill District Health – told us about the Hospital in the Home service … and within days I was home and being visited by the nurses.
The Loddon Mallee Health Network was the vision of a number of passionate, patient- focussed health service CEOs throughout the Loddon Mallee who were driven by the possibilities created by working together more formally - we knew we would be better together.
LMHN Regional Review | Issue 1 | Spring 2022
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