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 2024–25

Throughout 2024–25, SMHS staff provided the following care and treatment across our community:

• Our emergency departments treated 219,290 emergency presentations, including 44,353 presentations for children.
• 5,832 babies were born during the year, including 100 multiple births and 18 births in one day.
• We treated 3,887 mental health inpatients.
• 1,016,122 outpatient appointments were delivered, including 294,104 virtual appointments.
• Our intensive care teams treated 3,990 admissions.
• We provided 184,240 community-based mental health engagements.

See the full snapshot of services provided by SMHS in 2024–25.

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