Your hospitals: a six-monthly report on Victoria’s public hospitals takes a different approach to previous Hospital Service Reports. It aims to provide Victorians with an insight into public hospital performance, by focussing on key areas of service delivery and explaining, simply and clearly, their achievements as well as their remaining challenges.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/yourhospitals/download.htm

Gives patients, carers and health professionals more information about Victorian public hospitals and how they work. Contains information about the public hospital system and reports on individual hospital performance for elective surgery, emergency departments and patients treated.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/yourhospitals/

Provides a listing of all Victorian public hospitals and services in metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/hospitals/pubwebs.htm

Provides interactive maps of public, private hospitals or day procedure centres in both Regional Victoria and Metropolitan Melbourne.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/maps/index.htm

Borrowing guidelines provide guidance to public hospitals, community health centres and metropolitan health services seeking to borrow money, or enter into financial arrangements such as leases or overdrafts.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/borrowing/index.htm

Provides details about fire safety in Victorian hospitals. Includes information about health and safety, operational readiness, client placement and the certificate of fire safety compliance. Documents are available to download.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/firesafe/

Provides information for consumers and clinicians about improving the way patients get their medication by bringing the Commonwealth's Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) to public hospitals.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/pbsreform/index.htm

Provides information about private hospitals to the general public and advice and support for private hospital proprietors. Also detailed, is the Department of Human Services' role in private hospital policy and regulation.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/privatehospitals/index.htm

Provides information about infection control activity being undertaken or funded in Victorian hospitals, and cleaning standards for Victorian public hospitals.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/infcon

The key objective of the common chart of accounts is to provide the basis of financial performance measurement of health services to ensure effective governance and accountability.

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http://www.health.vic.gov.au/accounts/index.htm