Far West Local Health District

The Far West Local Health District (LHD) has a vision “Excellence in Rural and Remote Health” and its mission is “Enabling health in our communities”.

The Far West LHD consists of eight public health facilities:

 o Broken Hill Health Service
 o Balranald Multipurpose Service
 o Wilcannia Multipurpose Service
 o Wentworth Health Service
 o Ivanhoe Health Service
 o Menindee Health Service 
 o Tibooburra Health Service
 o White Cliffs Health Service. 

 The Far West LHD also includes the Family and Child Health Centre (Broken Hill) and Dareton Primary Care & Community Health Service, together with a number of other facilities including mental health and aged care facilities. 

 The Far West LHD is one of the smallest LHD’s in NSW. It serves a dispersed population of approximately 30,009 people and covers one of the largest geographical areas (194,949 square kilometres). It has a population with the highest proportion of Aboriginal people in the State.