Preventative cybersecurity tools will be provided to health services, avoidable harm will be tackled and a coordinated care project given the greenlight with funding announced in today's Victorian state budget, which features a number of big construction projects, including over $160 million for inpatient infrastructure at Northern Hospital.

While details are scarce, the budget papers allocate $11.9 million to a cybersecurity and network connectivity project, which will see preventative cybersecurity controls and tools to detect suspicious cybersecurity events implemented across 29 identified Victorian Health Service networks. This will improve continuity of patient care and safety, the papers say.