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Local Health Districts

We aim to provide good experiences for people using public health services by making sure that these services are of high quality, appropriate, safe, available when and where needed, and coordinated to meet each individual’s needs. 

New South Wales public health services include more than 220 public hospitals, 500 community, family and children's health centres, 220 ambulance stations, and an extensive range of other services including mental health, dental, allied health, public health, Aboriginal health and multicultural health services.

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Hospitals and Emergency Department locations and contact details can also be found in the front section of many White Pages telephone directories.

Local Health Districts

Eight LHDs cover the Sydney metropolitan region and seven cover rural and regional NSW.

In addition, two specialist networks will focus on Children's and Paediatric Services, and Forensic Mental Health. A third network will operate across the public health services provided by three Sydney facilities operated by St Vincent's Health: these include St Vincent's Hospital and the Sacred Heart Hospice at Darlinghurst and St Joseph’s at Auburn.

Metropolitan NSW Local Health Districts

Rural & Regional NSW Local Health Districts

Public Health Units

Public Health Units are responsible for surveillance and public health response in NSW, including monitoring the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases and taking appropriate action to control the spread of diseases.

Other Public Health Organisations

NSW Health also comprises a number of statewide or specialist health services:


  • Responsible for the delivery of front line pre-hospital care, medical retrieval and health related transport.

  • A statutory body charged with substantially improving cancer control in NSW.
  • Centre for Oral Health Strategy, NSW
    Responsible for planning and developing oral health policies that focus on oral health promotion, prevention, early intervention and treatment.

  • A board-governed statutory health corporation established to promote and support improved clinical care, safety and quality across the NSW health system.

  • A statewide service that provides health services to adult and juvenile offenders in local courts, in custody and detention, and in the community. It also provides health services to adult offenders in police cells.

  • The Sydney Children's Hospital Network is the largest paediatric healthcare entity in Australia, with 44,000 inpatient admissions, 86,000 Emergency Department presentations and over one million outpatient occasions of service each year. The team of over 3500 talented staff (full time equivalent) across the Network are committed to providing world-class paediatric health care in a family-focussed, healing environment.

Other services

  • Adahps (AIDS Dementia & HIV Psychiatry Service)
    A state-wide service that assists in the care and management of people with HIV and complex needs.

  • State-wide specialised training, consultancy and resource development for NSW Health and interagency workers who provide services to children and adults who have experienced sexual assault, domestic/family violence and/or physical and emotional abuse and neglect.

  • Offers overseas employment and international consultancy opportunities in commercial and development assistance projects. It also designs and manages in-house education and training programs to meet the specialised needs of international health professionals.

  • Information and services to assist health professionals to communicate with non English speaking communities throughout New South Wales.

  • Aims to improve the process and outcome of maternal and neonatal care in NSW, especially to those women and/or babies at risk of an adverse outcome.

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This web page is managed and authorised by Media & Communications of the NSW Department of Health. Last updated: 1 December, 2011