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Service Definitions
The health service classifications used in the Hunter New England Area Health Service map are derived from the Report of the Rural Health Implementation Coordination Group's "The NSW Rural Health Report" (September 2002) and the NSW Government Response to the Report "The NSW Rural Health Plan" (September 2002)
These are general descriptions of health services. More specific details of levels of service (role delineation) for individual facilities will be published in the Hunter New England Health Strategic Healthcare Services Plan in late 2005.
Mental Health Hospitals
Establishments devoted solely to the treatment and care of inpatients with psychiatric disorders. Other hospitals may also provide inpatient mental health services.
Community Health Services
Includes Community Health Centres, Primary Health Care, Public Health and Health Promotion services.
Community Hospitals/Multi Purpose Services
Community Hospitals provide predominantly residential care for aged people in combination with some primary care services. At times they provide a welfare role and low-level acute care services, which may include emergency care.
Multi Purpose Services (MPSs) have services jointly funded by the Commonwealth and states to facilitate a more flexible range of services than was possible under traditional funding structures. MPSs provide integrated acute health, nursing home, hostel, community health and aged care services under one organisational structure.
District Health Services
Provide hospital and community health services (including Community Health Centres, Primary Health Care, Public Health and Health Promotion services) to their local population in both rural and metropolitan settings. Patients requiring higher level services not provided at the District Health Service are managed at the Rural Referral Hospital within the same Area.
Rural Referral Hospitals
Provide a comprehensive range of core health services to residents, including Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Obstetrics, Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Community Health and Child Protection services.
In addition, Rural Referral hospitals may offer more complex tertiary services either locally or through formal networking arrangements with other Areas.
Tertiary Referral Hospitals
Provide complex tertiary health services. As a minimum, tertiary referral hospitals should be able to provide for all but the most complex health needs of residents in their Area.
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