Strategy

Harnessing collaboration to accelerate outcomes

The VCCC Alliance is Australia’s foremost comprehensive cancer centre, providing a multi-site, multidisciplinary, integrated approach to cancer research, education and clinical care to improve outcomes for people affected by cancer.

The premise of the alliance is that collaborating organisations with a shared agenda will deliver far greater benefits for more people, more quickly, than an individual organisation could achieve alone. Effective inclusion of consumer perspectives is a critical factor in this approach to tackling complex, system level change.

VCCC Alliance strategies are developed through extensive processes of consultation and prioritisation with a large and diverse pool of stakeholders across members, consumers and the sector, and cross referenced with state and federal government plans.

CI model

The Collective Impact model, as published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, closely aligns with the VCCC Alliance approach and philosophy.

The VCCC Alliance Strategy on a Page 2024 - 29

Following extensive consultations in 2023, the VCCC Alliance developed an updated strategy to focus on key opportunities, particularly those that will enhance equity of access to cancer treatments and care, and improve outcomes for all Victorians. 

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Download a copy of the VCCC Alliance Strategy on a Page 2024 - 29

Strategic Plans

In 2020, the Victorian Government invested $27 million over 3.5 years in the VCCC Alliance to develop a Strategic Program Plan encompassing critical programs in research and data linkage, education, health equity and improving clinical trials, especially regional access. This plan aligns with the VCCC Alliance Strategy 2020 - 24 and the State Government’s Victorian Cancer Plan, to accelerate progress in key areas.

Now in its final year, the VCCC Alliance Strategic Program Plan 2021-24 is an ambitious, integrated plan that systematically addresses some complex issues and challenges with the enduring aim of improving outcomes for people affected by cancer.

A new business case has been submitted to the Victorian Government for consideration in the State Budget 2024. 

Previous strategies 

Previously, the Victorian Government allocated $30 million over three years to the VCCC Alliance in 2016 to develop a Strategic Research Plan (SRP 2017-20) addressing key opportunities for improvement in cancer research capability, development of clinical trials, workforce development and leadership.

This was shaped by the VCCC Alliance Strategic Plan 2016-20 which set goals for effective sharing of clinical and research data, to support better, more integrated research and clinical care.

Previous strategies and program plans can be accessed via links below.

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