Regions and Innovations

Three regions

TRANSFORM works across three regions in metropolitan Melbourne. Each region brings together consumers, clinicians, services and partners to identify local priorities and co-design solutions that improve how care works in practice.

While each region focuses on its own context, all contribute to a shared learning network, so that what works in one place can inform change across the system.

Across all regions, TRANSFORM follows the same approach:

  • Understand local needs: Using data, lived experience and patient journey mapping to identify where care breaks down

  • Co-design solutions: Bringing together consumers, clinicians and services to design practical improvements

  • Test and evaluate: Implementing innovations in real-world settings and assessing their impact

  • Share and scale: Spreading effective models across regions and informing broader system reform

A network diagram with five connected nodes, including a central circle connected to four outer circles with lines.
Map of Victoria, Australia, showing primary health networks divided into regions with different colors, including North Western Melbourne, Eastern Melbourne, South Eastern Melbourne, Gippsland, Western Victoria, and Murry, dated August 2023.

‍ All regions will have

Across all regions all regional integration collaboratives will have:

  • Consumer representation

  • Clinical academics

  • Project Officers

  • Local co-design and implementation members

  • Representative from the Primary Health Network, hospitals, community health services, general practice and other local stakeholders

‍ What this work will deliver

‍ Across all three regions, TRANSFORM will produce:

  • Patient journey maps: Showing how care is currently experienced and where it can be improved

  • Co-designed innovations: Practical solutions tailored to local needs and tested in real-world settings

  • Evidence on impact and value: Including experience, outcomes, efficiency and cost

  • Implementation blueprints: Supporting adoption and scale across other regions and systems

‍ A connected system of learning

All three Regional Integration Collaboratives are linked through a shared learning network.

What works in one region informs the others, and the evidence generated across all three builds toward system-level reform.