LMICS

Integrated Cancer Services (ICSs) have been established across the State to drive the Victorian cancer reform agenda at a local level.

These ICSs aim to improve the planning and delivery of cancer care so that it is:

• coordinated,
• appropriate, and
• effective.

These Integrated Cancer Services:

• are formal partnerships between health services within a particular geographic area (including public hospitals, community based services, general practitioners, private hospitals, psycho-social support services and palliative care services),
• operate across public, private and community services, and
• have been rolled out and supported by the Cancer and Palliative Care Unit in the Victorian Department of Human Services.

The nine Victorian ICS are:

• North Eastern Metropolitan ICS,
• Southern Melbourne ICS,
• Western and Central Melbourne ICS,
• Barwon South Western Regional ICS,
• Gippsland Regional ICS,
• Grampians Regional ICS,
• Hume Regional ICS,
• Loddon Mallee ICS, and
• Statewide Paediatric ICS.

Further information about the development of the ICS is available at the Department of Human Services website.