Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 24
Our Pandemic
Response
Sydney Local Health District activated its COVID-19
response in January 2020. Each day our staff have
been called on to support the response – and every
day staff have asked what they can do to help.
We have been continually supported by our
community.
It has been an extraordinary period in the history of
NSW Health and in Sydney Local Health District.
In the first 12 months of the COVID response
we prepared our teams, facilities and plans and
established services to meet the challenges we
faced. In 2021 and 2022 we joined the largest
global vaccination campaign in history, launched
a paediatric vaccination program and worked
together to keep the community and our staff
safe as the Delta and Omicron variants reached
Australia. We also sent staff to support our
colleagues across the state during unprecedented
flood emergencies.
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 response
in NSW.
• Established a new Long COVID Clinic.
• Cared for more than 4000 patients with
COVID-19 in our hospitals, 23,000 people in
Special Health Accommodation and almost
60,000 virtually through rpavirtual since
January 2020.
• Managed 2,654,377 non-admitted patient
service events related to COVID-19.
• Maintained surveillance and screening
programs in our hospitals and community,
including at NSW ports.
• Supported the NSW Health Vaccination
Program, giving over 1.1 million vaccinations
at more than 100 locations.
• Implemented an Australian-first COVID-19
vaccine closed loop medication system, to
ensure the safe storage and preparation of
thousands of COVID-19 vaccines.
• Received a Premier’s Award for Putting
Customers at the Centre for the NSW Health
Vaccination Centre response to COVID-19.
• Delivered a dedicated Outbreak Management
response for vulnerable communities, including
the establishment of a 24 hour Cultural
Response Team, ensuring equity of access to
vaccination and health information for one of
the most diverse communities in the state.
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