The South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) delivers hospital and community-based public health care services to nearly a quarter of WA’s population across 9 local government areas in southern metropolitan Perth (PDF 2MB). In addition, SMHS provides services to WA Country Health Service (WACHS) patients from the Great Southern, South West, Southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields.

We provide a wide range of services through our hospital network and community-based services.

A snapshot of SMHS services in 2020/21

In 2020/21, our staff provided the following care and treatment:

• Our emergency departments treated in excess of 218,000 patients. More than 47,000 emergency patients were children aged between 0 and 15 years.
• More than 179,500 people attended in excess of 825,000* outpatient appointments. In excess of 204,000 occasions of care were provided via telehealth or telephone.
• The baby boom continued with more than 5,900 babies born during the year. 63 of these deliveries were multiple births.
• More than 173,000 people were discharged from our hospitals during the year.
• Our surgical teams performed more than 47,700 elective and 16,300 emergency surgeries.

* Includes activity for metropolitan wide Rehabilitation in the Home and radiation oncology services.

See a snapshot of the services provided by SMHS in 2020/21.

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