Overview
Western Australia’s public health system aims to ensure healthier, longer and better lives for all Western Australians and to protect the health of our community by providing a safe, high quality, accountable and sustainable health care system.
We recognise that this care is achieved through an integrated approach to all the components of our health system. These components include workforce, hospitals and infrastructure, partnerships, communities, resources and leadership. We also recognise that WA Health must work with a vast number of groups if it is to achieve the vision of a world-class health system.
WA Health is entering one of the most exciting and challenging decades of service provision in our State’s history. In March 2004, the Health Reform Committee put forward 86 recommendations in their final report (Reid report) outlining major improvements to be made to the public health system in WA. The Government endorsed 85 recommendations and established the Health Reform Implementation Taskforce (HRIT) to implement the recommendations.
Since then WA Health has worked hard to achieve the recommendations set out in the Reid report and to coordinate activities into six priority areas in order to provide better focus and direction to truly deliver a healthy WA.
The six strategic directions or priority areas WA Health follows are: Healthy Workforce, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Partnerships, Healthy Communities, Healthy Resources and Healthy Leadership.