Medical Equipment Replacement Program

The $402.25 million Medical Equipment Replacement Program provides Victorian Government funding to replace prioritised highest critical risk capital medical equipment for acute services in public hospitals. Examples include:

• microscopes
• digital x-ray units
• computed tomography (CT) scanners
• heart imaging equipment such as fluoroscopy units SPECT-CT gamma cameras.

Eligible Health Services will be notified when submissions open.

For assistance regarding the funding programs please contact MERPandEIRP.vhba@vida.vic.gov.au.

More information

Refer to the 2025-26 Engineering Infrastructure and Medical Equipment Replacement Program – Guidelines in the downloads section below.

It is vital that our hospitals have access to the latest developments in medical equipment and technology. This funding program helps acute public hospitals across the state provide a high standard of care, more accurate diagnosis, and a safe environment for patients and healthcare workers and maintain clinical service availability.

The Medical Equipment Replacement Program aims to:

• support health services in managing risk and maintaining patient safety, occupational health and safety, and service availability, as well as helping avert unacceptable clinical service interruptions or failures
• enable qualifying at-risk critical medical equipment due or overdue for replacement to be replaced in a timely and prioritised way, consistent with statewide strategic and service plans, service delivery needs and asset management plans
• sustain at-risk assets that provide essential capacity for delivering responsive and appropriate acute clinical services across Victorian public hospitals
• provide a safety net to minimise whole-of-system risks
• devolve a level of capital funding to health services’ management, making prioritising the replacement of at-risk assets more flexible, reducing administrative burden and helping to improve asset management
• help health services to implement effective asset management that aligns with existing government frameworks and policies
• develop and implement multi-year medical equipment asset management plans for health services consistent with their role in the statewide context and appropriate to their asset management requirements.

The Medical equipment asset management framework presents the foundation business practice to plan and manage medical equipment to achieve efficient, effective, and safe service operation of medical equipment.

Based on the asset lifecycle (record and maintain asset information > plan > acquire > operate > dispose), the framework will assist health services manage their assets.

The framework:

• supports risk management and financial planning using a consistent and structured approach
• informs preparation of asset management plans (medical equipment and other assets)
• positions health services to best plan, acquire, operate, and dispose of medical equipment.

The practices applied in the framework can be generally applied to all asset classes.

The framework comprises two parts:

• Part A has key features for management.
• Part B has details for users, practitioners, and decision-makers.

The framework is supported by a companion Part C document that contains web-based tools, information sheets, templates, checklists, and packages to assist the framework implementation

• Medical equipment asset management framework: Part A and B
• Medical equipment asset management framework: Part C

Projects funded through the Victorian Government’s Medical Equipment Replacement Program are administered by the Victorian Health Building Authority. These projects are delivered by the public funded health service provider.