Ministry of Health (New South Wales)

The New South Wales Ministry of Health, a department of the New South Wales Government, is responsible for monitoring the performance of the public health system in New South Wales, particularly through public hospitals. The goals of the Ministry are to keep people healthy, provide the health care that people need, deliver high quality services, and manage health services well.

The provision or delivery of health services are delegated to fifteen local health districts who provide services in a wide range of settings, from primary care posts in the remote outback to metropolitan tertiary health centres. In addition, two specialist networks are focused on children's and paediatric services, and forensic mental health, and a third network covers the delivery of public health services provided by three Sydney facilities operated by St Vincent's and Mater Health.

The Ministry is led by its Secretary, Mary Foley. The Ministry reports to the Minister for Health, presently the Honourable Jillian Skinner MP, and the Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Medical Research and Assistant Minister for Health, presently the Honourable Pru Goward MP.

Local Health Districts (formerly Area Health Services)

On 1 January 2011 the each of the eight former Area Health Services were split into two^[4] (except for one), creating fifteen Local Health Networks (LHNs). The LHNs are as follows:^[5]

Metropolitan Local Health Districts

• Central Coast
• Northern Sydney
• Illawarra Shoalhaven
• Nepean Blue Mountains
• South Eastern Sydney
• South Western Sydney
• Sydney
• Western Sydney

Rural and Regional Local Health Districts

• Murrumbidgee
• Southern NSW
• Far West
• Western NSW
• Hunter New England
• Mid North Coast
• Northern NSW

Associated agencies

• Ambulance Service of New South Wales, a statutory body
• Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare, funded by New South Wales Ministry of Health
• Board of Optometrical Registration, a statutory body
• Cancer Institute of New South Wales, a statutory body
• Chiropractors Registration Board, a statutory body
• Osteopaths Registration Board, a statutory body
• Clinical Excellence Commission, a statutory body
• Dental Board, a statutory body
• Dental Technicians Registration Board, a statutory body
• Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Advisory Committee, a statutory body
• Health Administration Corporation, a statutory body
• Health Care Complaints Commission, a statutory body
• Health Education & Training Institute, a statutory health authority
• HealthQuest, a statutory body
• Justice Health Service, a statutory body
• New South Wales Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health
• Medical Services Committee, a statutory body
• Mental Health Commission of New South Wales, a statutory body
• Mental Health Review Tribunal, a statutory body
• New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, a statutory body
• New South Wales Medical Board, a statutory body
• Nurses Registration Board, a statutory body
• Official Visitors under the Mental Health Act, an associated body
• Optical Dispensers Licensing Board, a statutory body
• Osteopaths Registration Board, a statutory body
• Peak Purchasing Council, an associated body
• Pharmacy Board of New South Wales, a statutory body
• Physiotherapists Registration Board, a statutory body
• Podiatrists Registration Board, a statutory body
• Poisons Advisory Committee, a statutory body
• Private Hospitals and Day Procedure Centres Advisory Committees, a statutory body
• Psychologists Registration Board, a statutory body
• Psychosurgery Review Board, a statutory body
• The Children's Hospital at Westmead

See also

• Minister for Health (New South Wales)

References

External links

• Official website