Sources
Every source cited across the report, briefings and oversight memo: 99 in total. Each links to the original. Where an independent archived copy exists at the Internet Archive, it is linked too, so the evidence can still be checked if the original page changes or disappears.
Government, regulators and health services (45)
- Safer Care Victoria Review Update — Comprehensive medical infrastructure meeting the health and welfare needs of Wodonga, Albury and surrounding Region. — Albur
- Review of the Department of Health and Human Services’ management of a critical issue at Djerriwarrh Health Services (2015)
- Victoria’s Mothers, Babies and Children 2024
- Executive Director, Transition and Integration (Cenitex)
- Senior officers (updated 7 October 2026)
- Independent review of cohealth general practice and related services Archived copy
- Department of Health Annual Report 2024-25 Archived copy
- Fines and penalties under the Health Services Act and regulations 2022–23 Archived copy
- Melbourne Health Statement of Priorities 2025–26
- Performance monitoring framework
- Secretary's directions: mandatory vaccination of health services workers Archived copy
- Targeting zero, the review of hospital safety and quality assurance in Victoria Archived copy
- Victoria marks one year of Local Health Service Networks
- Victorian health services performance monitoring framework 2024–25
- Targeting Zero: review of hospital safety and quality assurance in Victoria (October 2016)
- IHACPA: Hospital-acquired complications fact sheet Archived copy
- Putting Safety First With Bacchus Marsh Hospital Revamp Archived copy
- Strengthening Governance At Cohealth Archived copy
- Albury Wodonga region colonoscopy recall Archived copy
- Corporate plan 2019–20
- In-depth reviews of health services 2020-23
- Quality accounts Archived copy
- SCV Statement on abridged SAPSE review reports Archived copy
- Safer Care Victoria Annual Plan 2025–26
- Safer Care Victoria Annual Plan 2026-27
- Safer Care Victoria Annual Report 2023–24 Archived copy
- Safer Care Victoria Annual Report 2024–25
- Safer Care Victoria Statement of Expectations 2024 Archived copy
- Senior officers (archived June 2025)
- Senior officers (current)
- Sentinel Events Annual Report 2024–25
- Statutory Duty of Candour and protections for SAPSE reviews Archived copy
- VMIA medical indemnity risk-rated premium 2025–26: FAQs Archived copy
- VAHI Data Request Hub (current)
- What we do Archived copy
- VAHI Data Request Hub, archived 19 May 2024
- VAHI Data Request Hub, archived 28 January 2025
- Clinical Governance: Department of Health Archived copy
- Clinical Governance: Health Services Archived copy
- Patient Safety in Victorian Public Hospitals Archived copy
- Clinical Governance: Department of Health (2021)
- 2026 Caretaker Conventions Guidelines
- Government Response - Ensuring the public sector is focused on what matters most
- Independent Review of the Victorian Public Service, Final Report (2025)
- Rebalancing the public service (2025)
Parliament (7)
- Department of Health response to question on notice, June 2025
- Department of Health: 2026–27 Budget Estimates general questionnaire Archived copy
- Hansard, Legislative Assembly: Health services, 14 August 2024
- Hansard: Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) debate, 6 March 2025 Archived copy
- PAEC 2023–24 Financial and Performance Outcomes hearing, Department of Health, 22 November 2024
- PAEC 2024–25 Financial and Performance Outcomes hearing, Department of Health, 28 November 2025
- PAEC 2026–27 Budget Estimates hearing, Health, 21 May 2026
Legislation and Gazette (7)
- Health Services Act 1988 (Vic), section 40C
- Health Services Act 1988 (Vic), section 42
- Victoria Government Gazette S032, 2025 Archived copy
- Victoria Government Gazette S130, 2021 Archived copy
- Victoria Government Gazette S602, 2022 Archived copy
- Health Legislation Amendment (Quality and Safety) Act 2022 Archived copy
- Health Services (Health Service Establishments) Regulations 2024
Research and policy analysis (13)
- Severe acute maternal morbidity in Victoria (2020)
- Safer care saves money: How to improve patient care and save public money at the same time Archived copy
- The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via emergency departments (Sprivulis et al., MJA 2006) Archived copy
- The economics of patient safety Archived copy
- Association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality (Jones et al., EMJ 2022) Archived copy
- Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction (Aiken et al., 2002) Archived copy
- Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding (Richardson, MJA 2006) Archived copy
- Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries (Aiken et al., 2014) Archived copy
- The Quality in Australian Health Care Study (Wilson et al., 1995) Archived copy
- The impact of the nursing hours per patient day staffing method on patient outcomes (Twigg et al., 2011) Archived copy
- Benefits and challenges of implementing statutory duty of candour in Victoria, Australia: a mixed methods analysis of healthcare provider perspectives - PMC
- Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality (McHugh et al., Lancet 2021) Archived copy
- Bed occupancy rates and hospital-acquired infections (Kaier et al., 2012)
Sector bodies and commentary (3)
Media reports (24)
- Auditor-General's report into major regional hospital reveals patient care at risk Archived copy
- Labor pitches $1.5 billion plan to slash emergency wait times Archived copy
- Major Melbourne hospitals impose hiring freeze after being asked to cut costs by government Archived copy
- Seven people diagnosed with colorectal cancer following colonoscopy recall Archived copy
- Victorian Health Minister sacks board of Djerriwarrh Health Services over stillborn baby deaths Archived copy
- Victorian public hospitals operating with major deficits Archived copy
- Whistleblowers unveil government's plan to cut funding to Victoria's healthcare system Archived copy
- Incident management system at Victoria's Health Department not yet fully implemented Archived copy
- Whistleblower claims Victorian hospital manipulated data to meet targets Archived copy
- Vic govt rejects call to dismiss troubled cohealth board
- L. Emerson, professional profile
- Victorian health failing on patient safety
- Botched Victorian hospital stays caused more than 100 deaths Archived copy
- Victorian hospital blunders lead to 167 patient deaths Archived copy
- Emergency services: Leaked reports detail ‘dangerous’ Ambulance Victoria call-centre crisis Archived copy
- Healthcare Victoria: Elective surgery waiting lists to balloon as state demands budget cuts Archived copy
- Mildura Base Public Hospital: Investigation under way after 150 referrals were forgotten in cardboard boxes
- Royal Children’s Hospital emergency department: 20 new beds will remain empty due to staff shortage
- Victoria hospitals strapped for cash, internal data reveals Archived copy
- Victorian hospitals: Northern Health and Western Health confirm budget squeeze Archived copy
- Victorian hospitals: Secret recording reveals sense of health budget crisis Archived copy
- Victoria’s emergency departments are overwhelmed, but Labor’s nurse pledge could help
- Alarm over deaths and serious patient harm at Victorian hospitals Archived copy
- Doctors sue Eastern Health and Royal Women’s as part of underpayment class actions Archived copy
Sources were checked and copies made on 27 October 2026. Some publishers block automated access, so for those a text copy was kept. Private copies are held by the author for verification and are not republished here.