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.
People experiencing cancer will be provided with world-class care closer to home and benefit from new research findings, therapies and an upskilled cancer workforce under the VCCC Alliance’s next five-year strategy.
The VCCC Alliance 2024-2029 Strategy is built around five strategic areas – collaborative research, data and technology, equitable care and outcomes, patient-powered and leadership and learning.
With $7.5 million over the next four years from the Victorian government, initiatives to deliver cancer care more equitably including to those in regional areas will be among the first to roll out.
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.
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.
Previously, the Victorian Government allocated $30 million over three years to the VCCC Alliance in 2016 to develop a Strategic Research Plan 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.
