Now is the time for change. Now is the time to build on our successes. We will continue developing a modern, safe, and sustainable health, wellbeing and care system.
We know the challenges: budgets are constrained; climate change is upon us. But we also have a unique opportunity to improve the health of Victorians today and for generations to come.
What value do we put on Victorians' health? This is a critical question we must answer when designing a financially sustainable system that delivers strong health outcomes. We need to appropriately balance our delivery of services with an increasing value on outcomes so that we can improve patient care, operational performance, and system management.
Switching to a more global viewpoint, we must also reduce the environmental impacts of our health system. Victoria is home to massive amounts of property, equipment, and other carbon emitting assets. We have enormous scope to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the health, wellbeing, and care sector. This will improve population and patient health outcomes. It will also deliver savings and strengthen the financial sustainability of the system.
Energy efficiency, solar projects, reduced electricity consumption and enhanced monitoring will all be key components of reducing our environmental impacts and transitioning to a low carbon health system.
Priority initiatives
- Response to the Victorian Maternity Taskforce – Deliver recommendations from the Victorian Maternity Taskforce to ensure safe, sustainable workforce recruitment and service delivery in rural and regional maternity services.
- Safer digital healthcare – Safeguard Victoria's health services through 6 centrally delivered statewide programs and enhance cyber protection under the Safer Digital Healthcare initiative.
- Health sector financial sustainability – Collaborate with health services to drive efficiency and productivity, ensuring all funding supports delivery of world-class care.
- Departmental financial sustainability – Oversee departmental efficiency commitments and ensure targeted budget outcomes are achieved.
Outcomes
Sustainable healthcare
- Sustainable system
- Health resources are well managed, maintaining the system into the future.
- Affordable care
- High-value care is delivered efficiently and affordably for Victorians.
Reviewed 28 August 2025