2013 Victorian Public Healthcare AwardsCongratulations RWV Gippsland and Marianne Cullen on winning Gold at the 2013 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards - optimising healthcare through e- health and communications technology. 

'Achieving The Best' Award, 2013: Congratulations to RWV - Hume, for their key involvement in 'Going the extra mile for John'. They were nominated and a recipient  of an Excellence in Achievement By A Team Award in March 2013 (Victorian Department of Health).  Watch the You Tube interview highlighting the Hume Region CNC and others involved in John's care.  

VHA Award Winner: LaTrobe Mobile Wound Care "Latrobe Community Health Service won the 2011, Victorian Healthcare Association Award for its mobile wound care (MWC) service. MWC was a unique opportunity, providing the regional wound CNC remote access to provide expert advice, while allowing the health services to participate in a collaborative research project.

Wound Care Awarded (as appeared in Australian Nursing Journal Nov 12 Vol 20 No 5) "A wound care project aimed at improving nursing practice and patient outcomes has won the 2012 Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) national award. The 'Connected Wound Care Project' was developed by Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) in partnership with the Victorian Department of Health and Regional Wounds Victoria."

Hesta Australian Nursing Awards.  Congratulations to Kylie Elder, Connected Wound Care Project Officer, in being named a 2012 "Innovation in Nursing" finalist, for leading the development of generic resouces for the prevention and managment of chronic wounds across Victoria with Regional Wounds Victoria CNCs.