More than half of Melbourne’s public hospital networks are now using technology to support staff visiting patients in the community with a duress alarm from MePACS, the personal alarm service run by Peninsula Health.

Peninsula Health has run the Mount Eliza Personal Alarm Call Service (MePACS) since 1989 and is the service provider for Personal Alert Victoria (PAV), which supports older people and people with disabilities to live independently with a 24/7 monitoring service.