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 Health.

The nine Victorian ICS are:

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

You can read more about the Paediatric ICS on the Children's Cancer Centre webpage at The Royal Children's Hospital website. Bendigo Health has joined the Regional Outreach and Shared Care Program (ROSCP) outlined on that webpage. As a result of this, Bendigo Health now offers supportive care to children with cancer.

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