Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network

Dhelkaya Health is a member of the Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network (LMLHSN), a partnership of health services working together to improve access to healthcare across the Loddon Mallee region of Victoria.

What is the Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network?

A new partnership for everyone living in the Loddon Mallee region

The Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network (LMLHSN) brings together public health services across the Loddon Mallee region to work more closely together and improve access to healthcare for local communities. Established as part of Victoria’s health system reforms, the Network supports health services to collaborate on planning, workforce, patient care, quality and safety, and shared services.

By working together, member organisations can better coordinate care, strengthen local services, improve access to specialist treatment, and help ensure people receive the right care, in the right place, as close to home as possible.

Dhelkaya Health is proud to be a member of the Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network and is working with partner health services across the region to improve health outcomes, strengthen healthcare delivery and support better experiences for patients, families and communities.

Health Services in the Network

The Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network includes:

Benefits for patients, clients, consumers and communities

The Network is designed to help patients access the right care, in the right place, at the right time. By working together, health services can improve coordination of care, strengthen referral pathways, support workforce sustainability and share expertise across the region. Collaboration across the Network helps ensure communities continue to have access to high-quality healthcare as close to home as possible.

Network priority areas

Access, Equity and Flow

Improving care pathways for patients, clinical service planning across Networks, developing plans for better collaboration with the wider mental health and wellbeing sector in their region, and supporting aged care patients to stay out of hospital.

Workforce

Develop Network workforce plans and share data to strengthen and sustain the health workforce through a coordinated, regional approach to planning and managing staff.

Safety and Quality

Increasing safety and quality of care by embedding whole-system continuous improvements to deliver a safer, more person-centred, and sustainable health system.

Shared Services

Identifying back-office efficiencies and sharing findings with other Networks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Dhelkaya Health still an independent service?

Yes. Dhelkaya Health retains its own identity, Board and leadership while working collaboratively within the Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network.

Will services at Dhelkaya Health change?

Patients, clients and consumers can continue to access care through Dhelkaya Health as they do today. The Network supports collaboration between health services to improve care and access across the region.

What are the benefits of the Network?

The Network helps health services work together on patient pathways, workforce planning, quality and safety, and shared services to improve healthcare outcomes for communities across the region.

What is the Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network?

The Loddon Mallee Local Health Service Network brings together public health services across the region to improve collaboration, patient care and access to healthcare closer to home.