NSW Department of Health
We work to provide people in New South Wales with the best possible health care. We aim to keep people healthy, prevent, detect and treat illness and deliver high quality, affordable and well-managed health services.
What's New
- StEPS: Statewide Eyesight Preschooler Screening
free vision screening for all 4-year old children in NSW. - NSW Public Health Officer Training Program
applications are open for the 2008 intake of trainees, closing date Friday 21 November. - How do you measure up?
a national program, supported by the Australian and state and territory governments, which aims to reduce the risk factors for chronic disease such as some cancers, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. - Ten-year services plan for forensic pathology services in NSW
a ten-year services plan to determine the most effective way to deliver forensic pathology services to NSW. - Respiratory illness in NSW Emergency Departments, Winter 2008
provides data on presentations with repsiratory illness to NSW Emergency Departments, 2008. - 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.
Newsroom
NSW Health media releases
- Chief Pharmacist addresses problem of Oxycodone aka 'hillbilly heroin' [27 October 2008]
- NSW Health investigates possible Shigella outbreak [24 October 2008]
- Concern over central catheter use [10 October 2008]
- Get behind National Walk to Work Day [02 October 2008]
more NSW Health media releases >>
Ministerial media releases
- Free eye-screening for all 4 year olds in NSW [19 November 2008]
- State-of-the-art theatre upgrade completed at Fairfield Hospital [18 November 2008]
- New research building opens at Royal North Shore Hospital [18 November 2008]
- Blood services no longer subsidised for private hospitals [15 November 2008]
