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Governance of public health care agencies in Australian states/territories |
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| 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. |
Dwyer Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2004 1:6 doi:10.1186/1743-8462-1-6 |
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