Our Strategic Plan 2023-27 (2025 update)

Published by:: Victorian Department of Health
Date:: 29 Aug 2025

Victoria is one of the greatest places in the world to live, work and play. Victorians are innovative, compassionate, creative and hard-working.

At the Department of Health, we're focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can. We're ensuring care is closer and more accessible than ever, reducing pressure on our hospitals' emergency departments, and supporting our community to get the right care at the right time. We're also fostering a stronger and more sustainable health workforce, placing Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands, and making mental health services more accessible.

Our department safeguards Victorians' most valuable asset – their health and wellbeing – and it is a privilege to partner with our community and our health services to help improve the health and wellbeing of every single Victorian.

The department acknowledges the strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the Country and the power and resilience that is shared as members of the world's oldest living culture.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia's First People and recognise the richness and diversity of all Traditional Owners across Victoria.
We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria practice their lore, customs and languages, and nurture Country through their deep spiritual and cultural connections and practices to land and water.
We are committed to a future based on equality, truth and justice. We acknowledge that the entrenched systemic injustices experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people endure, including in our health system, and that Victoria's ongoing treaty and truth-telling processes provide an opportunity to right these wrongs and ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have the freedom and power to make the decisions that affect their communities.
We express our deepest gratitude and pay our deepest respect to ancestors, Elders, and leaders – past and present. They have paved the way, with strength and fortitude, for our future generations.

Secretary's foreword
This strategic plan harnesses the energy, innovation, and passion of our people.
Our vision and values
Our vision is that Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. It’s bold, it’s ambitious and we’ll settle for nothing less.
Our strategic directions
Our strategic directions state what we are doing to support Victorians to be the healthiest people in the world.
Our environment
Our strategic plan recognises the challenges, capitalises on innovation and delivers a path forward towards our vision of Victorians being the healthiest people in the world.
Our department
At the Victorian Department of Health, we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world.
Risk management
The department's risk management policy ensures the implementation of an effective risk management framework that supports the department in achieving its outcomes.
Our priority outcomes framework
Outcomes articulate what success looks like and reflect our ambitions for Victoria’s public health services.
Our outcomes
About the Department of Health's priority outcomes framework.
Asset and financial outlook
Details of the department’s total funding as per the State Budget 2025–26.

Updated 29 August 2025