NSW Department of Health
We work to provide people in New South Wales with the best possible health care. We work to keep people healthy, prevent, detect and treat illness and deliver high quality, affordable and well-managed health services.
What's New
- Hospital Performance Data for period ending June 2008
provides data on how our hospitals and the Ambulance Service are performing. - 1997-2007 Report on older people from the New South Wales Population Health Survey
provides a snapshot of the health and wellbeing of adults 65 years and over in New South Wales. - Final Government Response to Tracking Tragedy (2007)
final response to Mental Health Sentinel Events Review Committee's 3rd report on review of circumstances surrounding homicides by mental health patients and suicide deaths of patients in community mental health settings. - 1997-2007 Report on young adults from the New South Wales Population Health Survey
provides the first ever snapshot of the health and wellbeing of adults aged 16-24 years in New South Wales. - The Patient Journey Kits 1 and 2
developed to support general practitioners and public health care workers who provide treatment to patients on the NSW Opioid Treatment Program. - Regulatory Impact Statement for the Proposed Medical Practice Regulation 2008
addresses clause 11 which concerns the advertising of medical services. - Regulatory Impact Statement for the Proposed Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008
proposes that the existing Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation be remade.
Newsroom
- Annual Report Card - NSW Hospitals Above National Benchmarks [02 September 2008]
- Illicit drug use and serious drinking continue to fall in NSW [29 August 2008]
- New health care call centre to ease pressure on hospitals [24 August 2008]
- New Chief Health Officer for NSW [21 August 2008]
- Leading oncologist named new Chief Health Officer [21 August 2008]
- Launch of Private Water Supply Guidelines and DVD [13 August 2008]
- A busy start to the snow season for Ambulance [12 August 2008]
- Minister advocates to extend role of nurses and midwives [07 August 2008]
