Western Sydney Local Health District Research Paper 2022

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Abstract
The paper summarizes a specialist health service planning for paediatric service in
WSLHD to meet the vision of better health services for people in Western Sydney according to
the WLSHD ‘Health Services Plan to 2026’. The essay presents environment scanning of the city
give an overview of the burden of disease, mortality, and morbidity in children group. The needs
assessments identifies gaps in the current care model, and the ongoing service profile shows the
separation rates and patient inflows at the hospital. The above analysis depicts the needs of the
target population and key gaps in current models of care. The paper also gives an overview of the
goals, strategies and key activities of the health service plan to ensure development of the
paediatric health service in Western Sydny

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Environmental Scan:........................................................................................................................4
Needs Assessment...........................................................................................................................6
Service Profile within LHD:............................................................................................................7
Current inpatient and outpatient activity levels...............................................................................9
Catchment and reverse catchment profiles:.....................................................................................9
Situational Analysis.......................................................................................................................10
Strategic Issues and Priorities........................................................................................................10
Future Services Profile by facility:................................................................................................11
Key goals, objective and strategies:...............................................................................................11
Overarching recommendations and conclusions:..........................................................................12
References:....................................................................................................................................13
Appendix:......................................................................................................................................16

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Introduction
According to the Western Sydney Local Health District (WLSHD) Health Services Plan
to 2026, the core vision of the plan is to develop high-quality health services for the people of
Western Sydney. To ensure that a system is created to respond to community needs, it is
necessary to focus on the development and growth of specialist health services too. This paper
focuses on the specialist health services of paediatric services in WLSHD and aims to develop a
specialist Health Service Plan for Paediatric services in the region. The primary rationale for
paying attention to the paediatric services and outcome is that children are one the priority
people according to the WLSHD Plan to 2026 and strengthening paediatric services and neonatal
care in the district can help to provide the best start to life for children in Western Sydney (NSW
Government, 2018). This specialist health service plan provides an overview of the
environmental scan, needs assessment, service profile, inpatient and outpatient activity levels,
catchment profiles, and situational analysis to effectively identify strategic issues and priorities
for promotion of children's health. The report will propose recommendations for facility
development too.
Environmental Scan:
The health service plan should be aligned to the WSLHD plan to 2026, which sets out
different strategies for the development of health service in hospitals and nursing homes and has
children as one of the priority populations (NSW Government, 2018). The need for growth of
paediatric services and children’s hospital can be understood by the demographic analysis of the
target area. WSLHD is the fastest growing area of the NSW health system, and its population is
expected to increase to 1.3 million by 2031. It is delivering public health care in about 120