08 February 2022

Hundreds of people from across Victoria’s health services and government departments have accessed VAHI’s new interactive Best Care report since it launched late last year, helping to raise awareness of patients at risk of low value care in our health system.

The Best Care report has been designed to allow for comparison between peer health services around potential instances of low value care, which includes non-urgent surgery procedures identified as having little or no benefit to patients based on current clinical evidence.

The report was developed in response to non-urgent surgery reform driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, which identified a range of elective surgery procedures that should only be performed in Victorian public health services under certain circumstances.

The report is fully automated, giving users access to up-to-date data each week after the Victorian Administrative Episode Dataset is updated.

The Best Care report is available for authenticated users through the VAHI portal, an interactive data website that provides the health sector and wider community with quality and safety performance data on Victoria’s health services.

To help new users navigate the portal and get the most out of the Best Care report, a user guide has been developed which provides clear description of how to log in well as an overview of the information currently available. The user guide is available in the authenticated section of the portal.

For more information about the portal or, if you work at a Victorian public healthcare service, to request authenticated access, please contact [email protected].

If you are already an authenticated portal user and would like a member of VAHI’s Best care report team to contact you for a demonstration of the Best care report, please contact Andrew Baker, Manager of Public Reporting, via [email protected]