SWAHS

The contractual arrangements associated with HDHS create a unique hospital and a unique partnership with NSW Health, through Sydney West Area Health Service. We are a licensed private hospital, with a contract to provide public patient services. This results in HDHS effectively having two hospitals under the one roof – a public hospital and a private hospital.

Patients who have private insurance can access our private facilities outside the public hospital constraints. Alternatively, our community members without private insurance have access to public hospital services consistent with other NSW Health facilities.

This is a unique arrangement in NSW and shows the foresight of NSW Health and SWAHS in establishing innovative ways of meeting the healthcare needs of communities.

At the same time, we are an integral part of Sydney West Area Health Service, forming one of its network hospitals. This means that services are organised across the Area to achieve the best outcomes for the community. We work with SWAHS to transfer patients to other parts of the network to receive care not provided at HDHS.

The achievement of excellent outcomes for the Hawkesbury community is testament to the success of the private-public healthcare model central to our partnership with SWAHS. We reaffirm our commitment to this partnership and extend our appreciation to the management team of SWAHS for their contribution to the success of this partnership and their continued commitment to the Hawkesbury.

We look forward to continuing to work together to respond to initiatives from the recent Garling Inquiry into improvements to the NSW Health System, and to prepare for the increased healthcare needs from the growth of the North West corridor of Sydney. We are confident that even better outcomes can be achieved for the Hawkesbury community in the years ahead, and look forward to developing new innovative service delivery models in partnership with SWAHS.