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THE HEALTH COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Author(s) -
MCEWIN RODERICK
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1975.tb111262.x
Subject(s) - commission , rationalization (economics) , health services , public administration , health care , business , public relations , political science , medicine , environmental health , law , population
As a result of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry on Community Health Services to the Minister for Health In 1969, the Health Commission of New South Wales was established as the State's single authority in the hospital and health fields. The Commission has four functional bureaux, and thirteen administrative regions to whom authority has been delegated to make and implement day‐today decisions. Basically, the task of the Health Commission is to provide the best possible health care service to the greatest number of people. This can only be achieved by a rationalization of the existing curative services, provision of community rather than institutionalized health services, and by convincing the community of the need for emphasis on preventive medicine as the key to the future.