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Healthdirect Australia's services include a helpline available 24 hours a day, [7] an after-hours general practitioner (GP) helpline, [8] [9] the healthdirect website (which provides free health information), [10] [11] an app for mobile devices, [12] [13] and a Symptom Checker (a guided, online self-triage tool allowing visitors to initiate their health enquiry online).
The New South Wales Ministry of Health, branded NSW Health, is a ministerial department of the New South Wales Government. NSW Health supports the executive and statutory roles of the Ministers for Health, Regional Health, Mental Health, and Medical Research. The Ministry also monitors the performance of the state-wide health organisations that ...
Logo of the New South Wales Government and its agencies. The New South Wales Government (NSW Government) is made up of a number of departments, state-owned corporations and other agencies. The NSW Public Service is organised under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013, with public bodies organised under various legislation. In 2009, most of the 100+ government organisations were ...
The office was reconstituted as a fully independent "Department of Public Health" headed by the Minister (titled Minister for Health since 1930) in 1938. [8] The department existed until its abolition in 1972 with the passing of the Health Commission Act 1972 which created the "Health Commission of New South Wales" headed by the minister. [9]
Established pursuant to the Ambulance Services Act, 1976 (NSW) and operating within the Health Services Act, 1997 (NSW), the service provides clinical care and health related transport services to over 7.9 million people in New South Wales (NSW), across an area of 801,600 square kilometres (309,500 sq mi). [1]
The functions and responsibilities of the Secretary for NSW Health are defined per section 122 of the NSW Health Services Act 1997. [3] These are: (a) to facilitate the achievement and maintenance of adequate standards of patient care within public hospitals and in relation to other services provided by the public health system,
My Health Record (MHR) is the national digital health record platform for Australia, and is managed by the Australian Digital Health Agency.It was originally established as the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR), a shared electronic health summary set up by the Australian government with implementation overseen by the National Electronic Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).
The tribunal is established under the Mental Health Act 2007 (NSW) and the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 (NSW). The acts give the tribunal a wide range of powers deal with the treatment and care of people with a mental illness. The Governor of New South Wales may appoint a president of the tribunal. The president is a full-time ...