From: Australian health system restructuring – what problem is being solved?
State | Current Status | Recent changes |
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NSW 6.64M | Centralising by 1 January 2005; regionalised since 1986. | Moving from 17 Area Health Services with separate governance authority to 8 Area Health Services within Departmental governance. |
Victoria 4.87M | Rurals partly regionalised for many years; Melbourne 'networked' since 1995. | Melbourne networks restructured from 7 to 12 and names changed in 2000. Rural structures mix of regionalised and atomised. |
Q'land 3.71M | Centralised at state level since 1996 after 5 years of regionalisation. | Long history of centralisation with advisory hospital boards; Regional Health Authorities 1991–1996. |
WA 1.93M | Centralised at state level in 2001/02. | Moved from 'atomised' in Perth to one board in 1997, governance centralised in 2001; state now centralised. |
SA 1.52M | Regionalised in rural areas since 1995; Adelaide partly regionalising. | Moved from atomised to regionalised, with 2 regional and 1 specialised health services in the capital as of July 2004. |
Tasmania 0.47M | Centralised at state level | Moved from atomised to regionalised in 1991; centralised at state level in 1997. |
ACT 0.32M | Centralised (single city system) | Single board for Canberra established in 1996; abolished in 2002. |
NT 0.2M | Centralised at territory Level | Never devolved. Some autonomous Aboriginal Health Services. |