DPV Health hosts Minister to support 5g rollout across Victoria

6th of October, 2022

DPV Health was honoured to hosted Jaala Pulford MP, Minister for Innovation, Medical Research and the Digital Economy to DPV Health’s Craigieburn site for an important industry event and government announcement recently.

Minister Pulford announced that in an exciting partnership with five telco providers, the Labor Government will invest more than $250 million to deliver 1,108 mobile infrastructure projects, to support better mobile coverage across 23,500 square kilometres. The investment by the state government will benefit more than 2.4 million homes and businesses across Victoria.

Attended by over 30 industry colleagues from Melbourne’s North and delivered in partnership with NorthLink, the Ministerial event provide the opportunity for DPV Health to showcase

1. The data & ICT innovation happening at DPV Health to enhance our client’s experience, partner with our community and strengthen cyber security.

2. DPV Health’s plans to establish a new Primary Care & Community Health Hub in Epping. The new hub will create a single multi-service health destination for people to have greater access to medical, dental, mental health, allied health and community services.

The new hub

> will play an important role in ensuring better health and wellbeing outcomes for our community, whilst reducing the stress on other parts of Victoria’s health system.

> provide a fantastic range of health workforce education, development & teaching programs, creating much needed employment opportunities for Melbourne’s North.

> strengthen connections, a sense of belonging and social cohesion across the community through providing places at the hub for local groups, including disability, multicultural, seniors and youth programs.

DPV Health is seeking funding from the State and Federal Governments to make this exciting vision a reality.