Our plan for 2023-27

Our vision and aim

The department’s vision is that Victorians are the healthiest people in the world, as outlined in the Department of Health strategic plan 2023–27. To achieve this, we must ensure multicultural communities access culturally competent health care and experience equitable health outcomes.

Our improvement goals and actions

The actions we commit to in this plan are organised around six improvement goals:

1. Invest in targeted policies, programs and services that improve health equity.
2. Design and deliver accessible and culturally competent mainstream policies, programs and services.
3. Provide language services and accessible communications.
4. Strengthen community engagement, capacity building and lived experience representation.
5. Enhance cultural competency through workforce capability and inclusive leadership.
6. Build evidence-based approaches through data, research and evaluation.

Improvement goals are interconnected. Collective advancement across all goals is essential to improve health outcomes for multicultural communities and achieve the department’s vision.

Good practice principles for the department are outlined below for each goal, as well as the flagship initiatives and new and continuing actions we will deliver over the course of this plan.

Monitoring and reporting

Approval and oversight from the Executive Board, with progress reported through the Victorian Government’s annual report on achievements in multicultural affairs, which is tabled each year in parliament.