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About Sydney West Area Health Service
The Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS) comprises a number of hospitals that include Westmead Hospital, Blacktown-Mt Druitt Hospital, Auburn District Hospital as well as St Joseph's and Lottie Stewart Hospitals in the Central/Eastern Cluster and Blue Mountains District Anzac Memorial Hospital, Lithgow Hospital, Portland Hospital, Nepean Hospital and Hawskesbury Hospital in the Western Cluster.
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.
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 and the majority of formal postgraduate training programs have their base at Westmead. The district hospitals — Auburn, Blacktown and Mt Druitt also provide valuable training opportunities by participating in the formal training programs, or by having positions that have lead people to successful progression onto the training programs.
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.
Sydney West Area Health Service is organised into Clinical Networks which take a multidisciplinary Area-wide approach to the provision of integrated care for patients. They are groups of services within our different facilities across the Area that have similar goals and methods of care. Under this operational framework, many senior medical staff have appointments at multiple hospitals within the Area. For junior medical staff this means that in their early years of training, there is exposure to senior medical staff who participate in, and perhaps even organise the training programs during terms at both Primary Allocation Centres (Nepean and Westmead) and at secondment / district hospitals.
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Western Sydney Area Mental Health
