#Nepean birth unit full

From 1995 to 2017 the statewide NETS (NSW), the Newborn and paediatric Emergency Transport Service was hosted at Westmead Hospital, prior to moving to make way for a new acute services block for the hospital. The Hospital includes a large Dental Clinical School and extensive clinical pathology and medical research facilities.

#Nepean birth unit full

Westmead Hospital is located on the junction of Darcy and Hawkesbury Roads in Westmead and provides a full range of tertiary medical and dental services except for paediatrics which is serviced by the adjacent Children's Hospital at Westmead, relocated from Camperdown to Westmead in 1995. Annually, there are over 21,000 medical operations, almost 5,800 births, and more than 75,000 presentations to emergency department. In 2016/17, Westmead Hospital provided more than 1.5m occasions of care to outpatients, in addition to approximately 107,000 inpatients. The hospital serves a population of 1.85m people and is located on one of the largest health and hospital campuses in Australia.

Opened on 10 November 1978, the 975-bed hospital forms part of the Western Sydney Local Health District, and is a teaching hospital of Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney. Westmead Hospital is a major tertiary hospital in Sydney, Australia.