This report sets out how the government and department are addressing the entirety of the Review of Hospital Safety and Quality Assurance in Victoria's recommendations under four areas of emphasis:

• Setting the goal that no one is harmed in our hospitals
• Supporting strong leadership in hospital governance - with good clinical leaders, effective boards and rigorous oversight
• Sharing excellence across our health system - so that where one hospital does something well, others can follow suit; and
• Collecting great data about patients' experiences and feeding that back across the system to improve patient care.

As part of this response, new organisations will be established to simplify the current system and better respond to the needs of patients and healthcare workers:

• Safer Care Victoria will work with health services to monitor and improve the quality and safety of care delivered across our health system, with the goal of achieving zero avoidable patient harm.
• A new health information agency will analyse and share information across our system to ensure everyone has an accurate picture of where the concerns are, and where we're getting it right.
• The Victorian Clinical Council will put clinicians front and centre to provide clinical expertise to the Government, the department and health services on how to make the system safer and provide better care to all Victorians.
• The Ministerial Board Advisory Committee will ensure our hospital and health service boards have the right mix of skills, knowledge and experience to strengthen local governance and decision making.