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State Emergency and Support Recovery

A Victorian Department of Health and Human Services partnership.

Under the State Health Emergency Response Plan the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has a shared responsibility, with Ambulance Victoria, for managing health emergencies and for working with the emergency management sector, the health system and Victorian communities.

Through the Primary and Community Health unit, the Victorian and Tasmanian PHN Alliance assists with a primary health response and this is managed/coordinated through the DHHS Primary Health Liaison Officer.

Victorian PHN activities include:

  • participation in local, regional and health service emergency planning;
  • conduct the following in the event of an emergency:
    • facilitating access to primary care providers in emergencies;
    • establishing and facilitating communications with the primary care sector;
    • providing intelligence on local factors affecting the delivery of primary healthcare in affected areas;
    • working collaboratively with the department in the provision of recovery services following an emergency.

PHN mechanisms

  • Provider engagement
  • Clinical support

Primary health responses in managing health emergencies is supported by the Victorian Government.

DHHS contact

PrimaryHealthEM@dhhs.vic.gov.au

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    • Collaboration
    • Leadership
    • PHN Publications
    • Thought Leadership
  • Our Work
    • Best practice, prevention, management and support
      • Accelerated uptake of Hepatitis C medicines
      • Carer Awareness in General Practice
      • Community led cancer screening
      • GP Respiratory Clinics
      • Infection Prevention Helpline
      • Lymphoedema Primary Care Capacity Building
      • Optimal Care Pathways
        • Optimal Care Pathways – Oesophagogastric Cancer OCP
        • Optimal Care Pathways – Prostate Cancer
      • Place-based Suicide Prevention
      • Priority Primary Care Centres
      • Statewide Paediatric HealthPathways Project
      • Victorian HIV and Hepatitis Integrated Training and Learning
    • Connecting health with other sectors
      • Doctors in Secondary Schools
        • Apply to Doctors in Secondary Schools: one day out of your everyday
      • Enhancing Mental Health Support in Secondary Schools
    • Health system integration and reform translation
      • Alcohol and other Drug Integration
      • Care Pathways and Referral
        • COVID-19 care pathways
      • Enhancing Carers Supports Within Primary Health Care
      • Mental Health Integration
      • My Health Record Expansion
      • PIP QI Incentive partnership
      • Population Health Planning
      • SafeScript
      • State Emergency and Support Recovery
      • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria
        • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria – Communications Toolkit
      • The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Victoria and Tasmania
      • Voluntary Assisted Dying
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