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Resources & Publications

Statewide Reports

Performance Indicators and Standards

PDF icon Performance Indicator and Standards for hospital breast services in Victoria - September 2006 (PDF File 268KB)

Supplementary documentation

MS Word icon Revised Data Dictionary for recommended performance indicators (Word 191KB)

MS Word icon Revised Breast Services Standards December 2005 (Word file 104KB)

MS Word icon Preparing for your peer review visit - a guide (Word file 84KB)

MS Word icon Preparing for your peer review visit - A supplement for peer reviewers (Word file 85KB)

PDF icon The Development of Performance Indicators for Hospital Breast Services in Victoria, October 2004 (PDF File 335KB)

Consumer feedback tool

PDF icon Caring for me? Final report of the development of a tool for consumer feedback on hospital breast services in Victoria (PDF File 146KB)

Supplementary documentation

PDF icon Revised booklet (PDF File 146KB)

Evaluation

PDF icon Breast Services Enhancement Program: Evaluation Report, July 2005 (PDF File 475KB)

PDF icon Breast Services Enhancement Program: What we have learnt - A summary report, May 2005 (PDF File 628KB)

Breast Care Nurses

PDF icon BreastCare Nurses in Victoria A Workforce Study of Practice and Factors Influencing Practice - Summary Report, 2000 (Word file 187KB) - For a brief overview click here

Prosthesis

PDF icon BreastCare: Improving Women's Access to a Quality Breast Prosthesis Service: A Research Study to Inform Policy Development, 2003 (PDF File 688KB)

Lymphoedema

PDF icon A review of lymhoedema services in Victoria: September 2003 to June 2004 (PDF file 2.1MB)

Redevelopment strategy

PDF icon Breast Disease Service Redevelopment Strategy 1999-2003 (PDF File 4.4MB) - For brief overview click here

Breast Services Enhancement Program: Project Reports

Multidisciplinary Care

PDF icon Eastern Health Breast Care Services: Maroondah Hospital Breast Clinic, Demonstrating Best Practice in Multidisciplinary Care, Inner and Eastern Breast Services Enhancement Program, July 2003 (PDF File 69KB)

Multidisciplinary Care Guidelines for Women with Breast Disease: A Package for Health Care Professionals - Loddon Breast Services Enhancement Program - www.breastservices.lmha.com.au/info/guidelines.htm (External Link)

PDF icon Multidisciplinary Care Guidelines for Women with Breast Disease: Evaluation of the Package - Loddon Breast Services Enhancement Program, March 2002 (PDF File 2.5MB)

PDF icon The C-Care Psychosocial Assessment In The Clinical Practice Of Breast Care Nurses: Summary Report on the Multi-Centre Trial, May 2004 (PDF File 241KB)

Breast Care Nurses

PDF icon Bendigo Breast Care Nurse Coordinator, Evaluation Final Report, September 2002 (PDF File 613KB)

PDF icon Development of Southern Health Breast Care Nurse Coordination Service, Southern Breast Services Enhancement Program, January 2004 (PDF File 38KB)

PDF icon Hume Breast Care Nursing Service and Breast Care Nurse Networking Evaluation Report, Hume Breast Services Enhancement Program, October 2003 (PDF File 649KB)

Information and Support

Benign Breast Conditions: Information Sheets for Women (available in 9 languages), Western Breast Services Alliance, November 2003 (Extrenal Link)

PDF icon Consumer Feedback Project - Western Breast Services Alliance, January 2003 (PDF File 349KB)

PDF icon Inform Me But Most Of All Support Me: A Report of the Consultation into the Provision of Information for Women Diagnosed with Breast Disease in the Loddon Mallee Region, November 2000 (PDF File 980KB)

PDF icon Information Project Report: Meeting the Information Needs of Women with Breast Cancer at the Time of Diagnosis and Treatment Completion, June 2002 (PDF File 192KB)

PDF icon Living Well: A Forum for Women Experiencing Advanced Breast Cancer - Conducted by the Cancer Council in collaboration with the Inner and Eastern BreastCare Consortium, and the Loddon Mallee Breast Services Enhancement Program, 2002 (PDF File 256KB)

PDF icon Personal Breast Cancer Journal - Grampians Breast Services Enhancement Program, December 2001 (PDF File 74KB)

PDF icon Personal Care Record: Evaluation Report - North Eastern Metropolitan and Barwon & South Western Breast Services Enhancement Programs, May 2004 (PDF File 186KB)

PDF icon Southern Health Breast Services Consumer Participation Project: Evaluation Report, January 2004 (PDF File 101KB)

PDF icon What to Ask, When: Questions for Younger Women with Breast Cancer - Western Breast Services Alliance, July 2004 (PDF File 403KB)

PDF icon Woman to Woman: A Research Report on the Experience of Rural Women with Breast Cancer and Implications for the Provision of Health Services - Hume Breast Services Enhancement Program, 2004 (PDF File 458 KB)

PDF icon Woman to Woman: Insights from Rural Women with Breast Cancer - Hume Breast Services Enhancement Program, 2004 (PDF File 444 KB)

PDF icon Young Women's Project - Western Breast Services Alliance, Breast Services Enhancement Program, May 2003 (PDF File 255KB)

Continuity of Care

PDF icon Breast Cancer Management: The Perspective of General Practitioners in Inner and Eastern Melbourne (journal article), 2004 (PDF File 137KB)

PDF icon Report on Integrated Care in Advanced Cancer Project - Inner and Eastern Melbourne BreastCare Consortium, March 2004 (PDF File 143KB)

Strengthening Support for Women with Breast Cancer Program

PDF icon Using technology to improve supportive care for women with breast cancer living in rural communities: The Strengthening Support for Women with Breast Cancer Program in Victoria, August 2004 (PDF File 2MB)

E-Health Information and Presentations

PDF icon E-Health Information Package (PDF File 114 KB)

PPT icon TeleHealth Overview - Chris Ryan, Telehealth Victoria (PPT 3397KB)

PPT icon Let's Use Videoconferencing or Let's Talk About Pipes - Danny Gruber, Global Teleconferencing Technologies(PPT 1466 KB)

PPT icon Oncology Care via Telemedicine - Dr Gary Doolittle, University of Kansas Medical Centre (PPT 1453KB)

PDF icon Partners in Care: A Health Strategy for Victoria - Keith Kranz, Victorian Department of Human Services (PDF File 1.96MB)

Websites Developed

SSWBC Program in Victoria
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/breastcare/sswbc

Grampians Region Breast Cancer Information and Services Website
(no longer online)

Loddon Mallee Region Breast Cancer Information Website and Breast Care Nurse Support Forum Area
http://www.breastservices.lmha.com.au

Hume Region Breast Cancer Information Website and Breast Care Nurse Support Forum Area
http://www.breastservices.humehealth.com.au


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Last updated: 3 February, 2009
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