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Annual Report 2006-2007 KEYKEY Hospital with Hospital with Emergency Department Emergency Department Lake Haven Hospital Hospital Toukley Health Care Centre Health Care Centre Wyong Community Health Community Health Mangrove Nursing Home Nursing Home Mountain Wiseman’s Long Jetty Ferry Gosford Erina North Shore and Kincumber Ryde Health Service Woy Woy Royal North Shore Hospital Ryde Hospital Macquarie Hospital Brooklyn Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service Galston (NSHNS) Northern Adolescent Services – Ryde Aged Care & Rehabilitation Royal North Berowra Sydney Shore Hospital Assertive Recovery in the Community Team Central (ARC) Hornsby Mona Vale Bilingual Services – Ryde Ku-ring-gai Wahroonga Coast Chatswood Day Centre for Aged Care Neringah Turramarra Child & Family Health Services Pennant Hills French’s Forest Health Child & Family Psychiatry Eastwood Brookvale Child Assessment Centre Macquarie Chatswood Queenscliff Child, Family & Baby Health Royal North Ryde Shore Hospital Manly Community Mental Health Seaforth Drug & Alcohol Community Service Mosman – Herbert Street Clinic Drug & Alcohol Community Service Sydney Harbour – Chatswood Drug & Alcohol Community Service – Ryde Greenwich Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service Drug & Alcohol Liaison – Herbert Street Clinic Royal Graythwaite Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital Early Childhood Health Centre Rehabilitation Nursing Home Berowra Community Health Centre Centre Sydney Brooklyn Community Health Centre FPA Health (Family Planning) – Chatswood Drug & Alcohol Community Service Health Promotion & Education – Hornsby Interpreter Service Galston Community Health Centre – Royal North Shore Hospital Mobile Community Mental Health Team Health facilities Hillview – Turramurra Hornsby Child & Family Health Centre Mosman Day Centre for Aged Care Central Coast Health Service Pennant Hills Community Health Centre Ryde Community Health Service – Ryde Hospital Gosford Hospital Richard Geeves Centre – Turramurra School Therapy Team Wyong Hospital Wahroonga Rehabilitation Centre Social Work Department – Ryde Woy Woy Hospital Wiseman's Ferry Long Jetty Healthcare Centre Mental Health Residential Facility Northern Beaches Health Service Kincumber Community Health Centre Affiliated Health Organisations Lake Haven Community Health Centre Manly Hospital Hope Healthcare Limited Long Jetty Community Health Centre Mona Vale Hospital Greenwich Hospital – Hope Healthcare Erina Community Health Centre Brookvale Early Intervention Centre Limited Mangrove Mountain Community Dalwood Assessment Centre – Seaforth Neringah Hospital – Hope Healthcare Limited Health Centre Drug and Alcohol Service – Mona Vale Graythwaite Nursing Home Toukley Community Health Centre Drug and Alcohol Service – Manly – Hope Healthcare Limited Woy Woy Community Health Centre Frenchs Forest Community Health Centre Tom O’Neill Centre – Hope Healthcare Limited Wyong Community Health Centre Parkhill Cottage Day Centre Northern Beaches Palliative Care Service Wyong Central Community Health Centre Queenscliff Community Health Centre – Hope Healthcare Limited Child & Family Health Sexual Health Service – Manly Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney introduction Letter to the Minister About Northern Sydney Central Coast Health The Charter The Charter of Northern Sydney Central Coast Health (NSCCH) is to improve the health of the community by providing and facilitating efficient and responsive health services. These services focus on the needs and the desired health outcomes of the population while taking account of available resources. The needs of the population are best met through an appropriate balance between health promotion, public health, community health services, acute hospital services, long term care, research and education. Overview NSCCH funds, organises and delivers public health services from Sydney Harbour to the northern reaches of the Central Coast of New South Wales. “Healthy People – Now and in the Future” is our vision. We work to improve the health and well-being of our patients and communities through health care partnerships, education and research. The values that direct our work are: • Integrity • Teamwork • Best practice • Accountability • Social justice Our region is an interesting mix of dense urban areas and regional, rural and semi-rural areas including the Central Coast and much of the Hawkesbury River; Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai, Ryde and Sydney’s North Shore. NSCCH provides health services north from Sydney Harbour across the Hawkesbury River to the southern shore of Lake Macquarie and west to Wiseman’s Ferry. NSCCH is defined geographically by 13 local government areas; Gosford, Hornsby, Hunters Hill, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove, Manly, Mosman, North Sydney, Pittwater, Ryde, Warringah, Willoughby and Wyong. Health care to residents of these communities is provided by: • Central Coast Health Service (CCH) including Gosford Hospital, Wyong Hospital, Woy Woy Hospital and Long Jetty Healthcare Facility • Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service (HKHS) including Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital • Northern Beaches Health Service (NBHS) including Manly Hospital and Mona Vale Hospital • North Shore and Ryde Health Service (NSRHS) including Royal North Shore Hospital and Ryde Hospital • Macquarie Hospital • Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service • Northern Sydney Central Coast Mental Health Service (incorporating Macquarie Hospital) • Northern Sydney Central Coast Dental Services. Affiliated organisations are Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney and Hope HealthCare North (Neringah and Greenwich Hospitals, Graythwaite Nursing Home and Tom O’Neill Day Centre). Northern Sydney Central Coast Health • 2006/2007 Annual Report I introduction continued The electronic medical record system (eMR link) will soon Chief Executive’s ensure accurate, easy and efficient record keeping throughout NSCCH. Clinical information will be available instantaneously Year in Review without repetitive recording, errors in transfer or difficulties When Northern Sydney Health and Central Coast Health sharing information. This is one of those complex projects joined to create a new entity we hoped that such a fundamental that is hard to see initially but which will make an enormous restructure would bring positive changes to the way we care difference to everyone who cares for patients. for our patients. There have been many other highlights during the year. I have I believe this has happened in 2006/07. We have asked the enjoyed the fellowship, sound advice and goodwill of nurses, hard questions, considered difficult issues and made decisions. doctors, researchers, allied health staff, administrators, those This year we have shaped a positive health future for well who work in the many support services that keep our fine over one million people and 15,000 staff. hospitals and community health facilities working and our volunteers. The sharing of initiatives and best practice across During the year the massive redevelopment of Royal North NSW Health has also been very rewarding to all involved and Shore Hospital was formally announced and we commenced a benefit to our patients construction on the first stage, the Research and Education Building. As we began the construction, it was particularly This will be my final Annual report as I am moving on to new pleasing to involve our indigenous community in a traditional adventures. Thank you to all who have contributed to this smoking ceremony which was a powerful symbol of healing and previous years and all the best for the future and to the and cleansing. It was also an important reminder to all people incoming Chief Executive Matthew Daly that this hospital has been a significant place of healing for over 120 years and will continue to be important for generations to come. With the announcement of Frenchs Forest as the site for the new Northern Beaches Hospital, this year we made significant progress in the complex task of planning for health services on the Northern Beaches. Manly Intensive Care, Mona Vale Emergency and Ryde Emergency have all been extensively Dr Stephen Christley refurbished and reopened. And at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Chief Executive the new obstetrics, paediatrics and Emergency Department (1.1.2005 to 21.7.2007) (including Psychiatric Emergency) building is now open. It provides well-planned, spacious treatment areas and patient accommodation. On the Central Coast the Gosford and Wyong ‘new-build’ is complete. During 2006/07, we completed the refurbishment of the Peri operative Unit and new Children’s Ward at Gosford, and were well underway with the major refurbishment of the Wyong Emergency Department. A hard winter with unpredictable weather and severe flu strained Emergency Departments and hospitals across NSCCH however, as we have come to expect, staff members rose to the occasion and in the case of Central Coast staff, even came in to work when their own homes were under threat from flooding. Thank you to those who worked so well in the face of great demand and staff shortages due to illness. Throughout 2006/07 we have worked to implement the new divisional leadership structure and to establish clinical networks. Staff still found time to devise and implement substantial quality improvement projects, a number of which were recognised by state and national awards. Ryde Hospital was chosen as a trial site for a ‘new kind of doctor in the house.’ A ‘hospitalist’ is a general medical practitioner within the NSW Health System who coordinates the clinical care of patients