NSW Health

A strong and vibrant research enterprise is important to NSW. Research can help deliver better treatments and interventions, improve health services delivery and improve clinical and population health outcomes.

NSW Health contributes to whole-of-government policy development and funds and coordinates statewide drug and alcohol programs, including early and brief interventions, treatment and extended care services.

The Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer is the professional link between the NSW Minister for Health, the Secretary of the Ministry of Health and the public, private and education sectors of the nursing and midwifery professions in NSW.

The Chronic Disease Management Program provides care coordination and self-management support to help people with chronic disease to better manage their condition and access appropriate services in order to improve health outcomes, prevent complications and reduce the need for hospitalisation.

NSW Health's Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS) aims to provide a systematic approach to the distribution and management of patient safety information to NSW health services.

The Private Health Care Unit regulates licences for private hospitals and day procedure centres, issues licences for anatomy laboratories, issues licences for the wholesale supply and manufacture of medications, and maintains the central register of IVF donor conceived births.

NSW Health is responding to the challenges of an ageing population and a growing number of people living with chronic or complex health conditions by investing in new, innovative models of integrated care, transforming the health system to routinely deliver person-centred, seamless, efficient and effective care.

• Pain management
• Support for carers
• HealthOne NSW
• Allied health
• Tobacco strategy
• Research ethics and governance
• Clinical ethics
• Blood and blood products
• Innovation portal
• Vitamin B3 supplementation in pregnancy

Value based healthcare will improve health outcomes that matter to patients by evolving how we receive and provide care. This will be achieved with a focus on delivering and measuring health outcomes and using insights to further inform expenditure, clinical models and the experience of receiving and giving care.

NSW Health has policies, strategies and services in place to ensure people from culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse backgrounds have access to appropriate health information and services.

NSW Health is working with the Commonwealth Government to implement the aged care reforms, organising aged and community care services for older people that better meet their changing needs, and offering greater choice and involvement in the way these services are delivered.