The PICS Long Term Follow-up Program service model has been redesigned and enhanced through the implementation of 37 consumer-informed recommendations, from a 2020–21 service review.
PICS is providing project management and clinical education expertise to MCRI’s development of an app that provides information on childhood cancer experiences and life after treatment.
PICS led a national, multi-site collaboration to inform the best approach for adolescents and young adults with a cancer diagnosis in Australia.
In 2023, PICS led a review of the 2014 Capability Framework for Victorian Children’s Cancer Services and current literature informing best practice.
PICS evaluated the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Home-Based pre/post-Hydration program, to understand impacts and identify further areas for improvement.
Exercise and Cancer Program ‘A collaborative approach to provide prescriptive exercise outside of the healthcare setting’.
An early intervention to assist carers of advanced cancer patients in hospital discharge and the transition home.
The Optimising Vulva Wound Management Project aimed to reduce the high rates of wound infection and breakdown amongst women after surgery for vulvar cancers.
Address the needs of the older person in routine cancer care by supporting health services to implement geriatric oncology models of care.
Evaluation of a prostate cancer nurse-led care model to maximise sexual function recovery for men post-prostate cancer treatment.
Scope and build an informed model for an First Nations Cancer Coordinator (FNCC) to serve the needs of Aboriginal Victorians with cancer, through; mapping access to care, collating existing literature; and engaging existing community advisory group
Aims to develop patient information materials to better explain what patients can expect if their eye treatment is by plaque brachytherapy.
This project aims to develop a myeloma virtual chemotherapy day unit (CDU) ‘chair’ at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, to provide remote care to people with myeloma in their own homes and communities.
