Health Service Facility Planning for Critical Care in South Western Sydney Local Health District

Running head: HEALTH SERVICE FACILITY PLANNING
Health Service Facility planning
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWS LHD) consists of seven local government
areas and goal of SWS LHD is to increase and enhance the capacity and health response time
for the local population. The purpose of this paper is to present a health service plan (HSP)
for the clinical stream ‘Critical Care’ in SWS LHD area. The increasing population and
changing demographics and environmental condition require more effective healthcare plan
particularly critical care for this area. In this area, the demand for critical care will see an
increase of around 37 % in comparison with today. The higher rate of chronic heart diseases
and other viral diseases are the primary reason for the admittance in critical care in SWS
LHD. These all denotes to the fact that SWS LHD will have a growing demand for adequate
and effective critical care service. The SWS LHD manages three types of health facilities
namely acute, sub-acute and community health facilities. LHD is currently operating
inpatient separations of 195,454 patients. To counter this, a future model of care for critical
care has been provided in this article. Mainly four key medical settings and discipline will be
focussed for these purposes which are intensive and high dependency care units, emergency
departments, pain services and anaesthetics. In this article, the proposed structure of the
critical care service will help to fulfil most the crucial needs of the LHD. It has also been
found that SWSLHD has to increase the health promotional activity through community-
based healthcare service with particular focus in critical care, which can improve their
expansion across the district.

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Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................4
1.1 Background:.....................................................................................................................4
1.2 Aim:..................................................................................................................................4
1.3Rationale:..........................................................................................................................4
2. ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN.................................................................................................4
2.1 Demographic analysis......................................................................................................4
2.2 Determinants of health.....................................................................................................5
2.3 Burden of Disease data for selected population...............................................................5
2.4 Morbidity and mortality data...........................................................................................6
3. NEEDS ASSESSMENT........................................................................................................6
4. SERVICE PROFILE WITHIN LHD.....................................................................................8
5. CURRENT INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT ACTIVITY................................................9
6. CATCHMENT AND REVERSE CATCHMENT PROFILE.............................................10
7. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS INCLUDING STRATEGIC ISSUES AND PROPRIETIES
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8. PROPOSED FUTURE MODEL OF CARE........................................................................11
9. PROPOSED KEY GOAL, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES........................................12
10. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.................................................................12
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................14
APPENDICES..........................................................................................................................16

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Appendix1: Projected population of SWSLHD (SWSLHD, 2016).....................................16
Appendix2: Current Service model of Critical care (SWSLHD, 2018)...............................17
Appendix3: Future Service model of Critical care (SWSLHD, 2018)................................18