NORTHERN Health and DPV Health have re-signed a collaborative memorandum of understanding, MOU, to support initiatives in shared service planning and delivery to help the growing communities.
The MOU allows the initiatives to explore opportunities to collaborate and deliver priority and wellbeing issues, including advocating for the northern corridor for better resources and enhancing primary and secondary prevention activity to reduce the impact of chronic disease in Melbourne’s north.
DPV Health chief executive Don Tidbury said he was delighted to renew a collaboration that had achieved remarkable outcomes for the communities of outer-north Melbourne.
“A connected health system is vital to ensuring our community is able to access high quality and inclusive health services,” he said.
“DPV Health and Northern Health will work together to empower people to keep healthy and safe in the community through pursuing innovation in service planning, codesign and delivery.”
Northern Health chief executive Siva Sivarajah said with a list of objectives, Northern Health was on board to contributing to essential health.
“Re-signing Northern Health’s collaboration with DPV ensures that together we can continue to deliver the best possible health outcomes for our community,” he said.
“This MOU has proven to be extremely successful, and we’re excited to see the positive impact it will continue to have on our growing catchment.”
