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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Completed
Melanoma Matters

Melanoma Matters

Melanoma Matters. A comprehensive approach to skin cancer in Gippsland

Underway
Innovative Home-Based Models of AML Treatment

Innovative Home-Based Models of AML Treatment

Underway
Stepped Care psychosocial model of care

Stepped Care psychosocial model of care

Underway
Psycho-oncology upskilling pilot program

Psycho-oncology upskilling pilot program

Completed
Supporting lung cancer screening implementation

Supporting lung cancer screening implementation

Projected
Exploring SES and it's impact on people affected by cancer

Exploring SES and it's impact on people affected by cancer

Underway
Electronic patient reported outcome symptom monitoring

Electronic patient reported outcome symptom monitoring

Underway
Timely palliative care referrals for incurable Oesophagogastric and Pancreatic Cancer

Timely palliative care referrals for incurable Oesophagogastric and Pancreatic Cancer

The nurse-led model offers three specialist palliative care appointments alongside standard care and aides patients through psychosocial support, symptom management, ACP completion, supportive care screening and referrals and patient centred discussions regarding palliative care.

Underway
Gippsland Regional Cancer Services Plan

Gippsland Regional Cancer Services Plan

The Plan seeks to strengthen Gippsland’s cancer services to ensure local people diagnosed with cancer have access to services

Underway
Regionalising Home-Based Treatment for Multiple Myeloma

Regionalising Home-Based Treatment for Multiple Myeloma

Regionalising Home-Based Treatment for Multiple Myeloma. Bortezomib self-administration

Underway
Culturally & linguistically diverse communities consultation 2025–26 – VICS Optimal Care Summits

Culturally & linguistically diverse communities consultation 2025–26 – VICS Optimal Care Summits

Our first consultation on cancer care for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Victorians is taking place in 2025–26.

Underway
CALD consultation 2025–26 – VICS Optimal Care Summits

CALD consultation 2025–26 – VICS Optimal Care Summits

Our first consultation on cancer care for culturally & linguistically diverse Victorians will be held in 2025–26

Completed
NEMICS Supportive Care Audit of Patient Needs

NEMICS Supportive Care Audit of Patient Needs

NEMICS conducted an audit to better understand the supportive care needs of cancer patients treated at NEMICS member health services.

Completed
Improving cancer care for CALD populations across NEMICS

Improving cancer care for CALD populations across NEMICS

To improve the understanding of CALD communities’ cancer care priorities, a series of investigations were conducted. This report summarises the key findings from these investigations.

Completed
Supportive care screening: Health services self-assessment project

Supportive care screening: Health services self-assessment project

In 2024, the VICS conducted a statewide self-assessment survey to evaluate supportive care screening practices across health services providing cancer treatment.

Underway
Grampians Health Horsham - Wimmera Cancer Centre Survivorship Clinic

Grampians Health Horsham - Wimmera Cancer Centre Survivorship Clinic

Supported by a GICS grant, this projects’ aim was to introduce a sustainable survivorship clinic at the Wimmera Cancer Centre in Horsham.

Underway
Chemotherapy Treatment - Patient Education Video Project

Chemotherapy Treatment - Patient Education Video Project

Supported by a GICS grant this project aims to increase cancer patients knowledge of chemotherapy treatment.

Underway
RNH - WellScreen Project

RNH - WellScreen Project

Supported by a GICS grant this project aims to improve health literacy and improve cancer screening rates.