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 2023–24

Throughout 2023–24, SMHS staff provided the following care and treatment across our community:

• Our emergency departments treated 221,120 emergency presentations, including 46,403 presentations for children.
• 5,802 babies were born during the year, including 138 multiple births and 18 births in one day at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
• We treated 2,862 mental health inpatients.
• Our surgical teams performed more than 60,000 surgeries.
• 981,921 outpatient appointments were delivered, including 277,064 digitally or by telephone.
• Our intensive care teams treated 3,878 admissions.
• We provided 171,167 community-based mental health engagements.

See a snapshot of services provided by SMHS in 2023–24.

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