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Wakefield Health (formerly Wakefield Regional Health Service) is one of seven health regions established within country South Australia in 1996. Wakefield Health is incorporated under the South Australian Health Commission Act which is administered by the Department of Human Services. The Minister for Health is the Hon John Hill MP.
The Region is managed by a Regional Health Board incorporated under the South Australian Health Commission and essentially has three core responsibilities:
- to plan for the provision of public health services;
- to distribute funds to health service providers; and
- to monitor the performance of health units in ensuring that services are provided appropriately.
Wakefield
Health covers a large and diverse region (approximately 24,000 sq km)
including the areas of Barossa & Light, Gawler, Lower North and Yorke
Peninsula of South Australia with an estimated population of 103,000 people.
Within Wakefield Region there are eight incorporated health services managing
a total of five community health services and thirteen hospitals.
Click here to view a detailed map of the Wakefield Region.
Last revised: 5 February
2008
http://www.wakefieldhealth.sa.gov.au