Medical Positions
Summary of Health Services Goals, Mission and Values
The Health Futures Plan provides a vision for the NSW health system over the next 15 to 20 years. The project refined NSW Health and area health service (AHS) vision and goals. Importantly, the Futures Plan also identified seven strategic directions that have informed the Corporate Strategic Plan and related strategic planning initiatives.
In summary, the SWAHS strategic vision is to deliver high quality health services that are responsive to the needs of health consumers and the community and ensure that its services can adapt to meet future challenges. We share high level goals and seven strategic directions to realise those goals with the NSW Health system as a whole.
Goals
To keep people healthy
To provide the health care that people need
To deliver high quality services
To manage health services well
SWAHS aims to be a quality health care organisation that embraces learning and innovation to achieve better health for the people we serve.
Values
Excellence, equity, respect
Learning, research, innovation
Ethical, honest and open practice
Collaboration, teamwork
Responsiveness
Seven Strategic Directions
The seven strategic directions reflect shared priorities across NSW Health for the next five years. Progress in achieving the directions will be measured using existing dashboard and other indicators at State and AHS level.
The strategic directions are:
- Make prevention everybody’s business
- Create better experiences for people using health services
- Strengthen primary health and continuing care in the community
- Build regional and other partnerships for health
- Make smart choices about costs and benefits of health and health support services
- Build a sustainable health workforce
- Be ready for new risks and opportunities.
Sydney West Hospitals include:
Auburn Hospital | Blacktown Hospital | Blue Mountains | Cumberland Hospital | Hawkesbury District | Lithgow | Lottie Stewart Hospital | Mt Druitt Hospital | Nepean Hospital | Portland Tabulam Health Centre | St Joseph's Hospital | Springwood Hospital | Westmead Hospital
We manage over twenty community health centres. These hospitals together with community based health services currently provide health care for a population of 1.7 million which is increasing at a rate of 1.4% per year.
Training Opportunities
Sydney West Area Health Service offers excellent opportunities for postgraduate training within its hospitals in a wide range of specialties. Westmead Hospital is the major tertiary referral centre for Western Sydney. Nepean Hospital is a principal referral hospital providing level 6 services in intensive care, maternity and operating theatre and level 5 services in cardiology and emergency. It also provides level 6 clinical support services in pathology, diagnostic and level 5 pharmacy and nuclear medicine services.
Prevocational Training Networks are centred at Westmead and Nepean with rotations to various facilities. A new network centred on Blacktown Hospital is envisaged in 2011.
Specialty training in most areas is available through a strong network of rotational positions across the Area Health Service.
To find out more about our Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities, click on the facility below:
Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital
Lithgow Integrated Health Service
Portland Tabulam Health Centre
