Peter Mac's Strategic Plans
The Peter Mac Strategy - Innovating for Impact: The Future of Research-led Cancer Care
Peter Mac’s ambitious plan for the years ahead is the result of extensive consultation and collaboration across the healthcare sector and the Victorian community.
Strategic Objectives
Advance personalised cancer care and innovation
We will lead the future of personalised cancer care, integrating advanced research and care delivery nationally and internationally. We will expand precision medicine across its full spectrum to deliver personalised cancer care at scale ensuring equitable health outcomes and driving breakthroughs that bring us closer to curing cancers.
Lead the world in cancer research and translation
We will deliver cutting-edge, research-driven person‑centred specialised cancer care providing an exceptional patient experience and outcomes for every individual and our communities. We will support the sector through broader capability, provide capacity for growth through collaborative service planning, system design and policy reform.
Enable our people to thrive
We will equip a future-ready workforce, delivering unbiased access to opportunities while attracting, developing and retaining talent. By prioritising safety and wellbeing, transforming systems and reinforcing a values-based culture we embed respect and positivity in the work environment, enhancing staff satisfaction.
Create opportunities to ensure a sustainable future
We will leverage Peter Mac’s expertise to develop sustainable commercial ventures that drive innovation in cancer care. Through partnership with the Foundation and strategic revenue diversification, we will create new opportunities that enable a long-term sustainable future resulting in improved patient outcomes.
Invest in Peter Mac’s digital capabilities
We will strengthen our digital systems and capability to improve care, research, and employee experience. We will transform systems, create operational efficiencies, leading to better patient care, improved outcomes and a positive patient experience.
Strengthen our partnerships to enable global impact
By aligning research, clinical care, strengthened partnerships and cultivating knowledge creation we will advance our strategic goals and enhance Peter Mac’s impact across our precinct networks, the state and around the globe.
Strategic enablers
These strategic enablers will support progress towards the above strategic priorities:
- Open and positive culture
- Digital capability
- Financial sustainability
- Connected systems
- Curious minds
To read more, download the full Peter Mac Strategy - Innovating for impact: The future of research-led cancer care.
Research Strategy 2025-2030
The value and strategic importance of hospital-based medical research is growing across the globe.
Peter Mac’s continues to lead the way with its unique integration of cancer research with cancer treatment and care.
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Research Strategic Plan 2025-2030 describes how we:
- Put patients at the heart of everything we do
- Govern research
- Invest in, and prioritise, research programs
Attract and keep the best talent in:
- Laboratory
- Translational
- Clinical research, and
- Health Services Research and Implementation Science.
The Parkville Precinct Strategic Cancer Service Plan 2025-2035
The Parkville Precinct Strategic Cancer Service Plan is a collaboration between Peter Mac, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The Royal Women’s Hospital.
The strategy is a 10-year roadmap to improve standards of care and equalise access to specialist services for all Victorians affected by cancer.
To read more, download the full Parkville Precinct Strategic Cancer Service Plan 2025-2035.