NEMICS grants program
Service Improvement Grants
Each year NEMICS offers funding to support small quality improvement projects. The aim of the program is to improve patient or carer experiences/outcomes through supporting projects that address one or more of the following quality dimensions:
- patient centeredness
- acceptability
- effectiveness
- efficiency
- safety
- appropriateness
- access
More information about applying can be found in Top Tips for Applying and 2019 guidelines
Congratulations to our successful 2019 service improvement grant recipients
The 2019 service improvement grant round saw a record number of very high level applications from four health services. Congratulations to:
Quality Improvement
Kristen Capron, Austin Health
VidEx: development and evaluation of a new education video VIDeo on EXercise during active cancer treatment
Naina Dhana, Austin Health
Translation of existing Radiation Therapy Treatment Pathway video
Eliza Hawkes, Austin Health
Feasibility of a network-wide approach to multidisciplinary haematology patient survivorship management
Wee Loon Ong, Austin Health
Patient RepOrted Symptom Monitoring for Adaptive Reviews during radiation Treatment (PROSMART)
Bianca Devitt, Eastern Health
Development of a survivorship care plan for patients who have completed treatment
Margaret Lee, Eastern Health
Personalised care plans in early stage bowel cancer to improve the patient cancer journey and enhance GP communication
Rachel Cooke, Northern Health
Improving outcomes for patients with chronic haematological malignancies
John El-Khoury, Northern Health
Gather information and data to implement a new patient pathway after surgery
Melissa Gwynne, Northern Health
Improving efficacy and delivery or pre-treatment education sessions to cancer patients
Wanda Stelmach, Northern Health
Implementation of Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic
Scoping
Alison Khor, Eastern Health
Improving patient experience by reducing time to first chemo dose for planned haem admissions
Helen Longton, Austin Health
Scoping a framework for cancer care coordination at Austin Health
Anastasia Pourliakas, Northern Health
Undertake a co-design process to create a feasible and acceptable group-based psycho-oncology program to reduce wait times and relieve stress
Paul Thomas, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Routine collection of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) in breast cancer radiation therapy
For further information about the program contact:
Megan Dendle
Ph 9496 3322
