Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 54
Allied Health
Allied Health is a dynamic, enthusiastic and diverse
group of health professionals working in acute,
sub-acute and community services in Sydney Local
Health District. Allied health includes allied health
assistants, art therapists, audiologists, counsellors,
diversional therapists, diagnostic imaging medical
physicists, exercise physiologists, genetic
counsellors, music therapists, nutrition and dietetics,
occupational therapists, orthoptics, orthotics
and prosthetics, pharmacists, physiotherapists,
podiatrists, psychologists, radiographers and
sonographers, sexual assault counsellors, social
workers, speech pathologists and welfare officers.
Allied Health staff work as part of multidisciplinary
teams with clients or patients to prevent or
minimise disability, and optimise function at
every stage of life.
Occasions of Service (2021–22):
54
48,000
61,500
Nutrition and Dietetics
Occupational Therapy
24,367
175,000
Speech Pathology
Physiotherapy
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 pandemic
response with Allied Health clinicians from all
services deployed into all areas of COVID-19
operations, showing their resilience, flexibility
and multidisciplinary approach to caring for
patients, particularly to the Special Health
Accommodation (SHA) by providing patients
with psychosocial support, case management
and clinical assessment and intervention;
staff also worked in COVID-19 swabbing and
screening clinics, airport flying squad, Tiger
Teams and the COVID-19 Support Centre.
• New virtual models of care developed in
conjunction with key clinical services for
example RPA Virtual hospital; Physiotherapy
and Exercise Physiology services with the
trial of Physitrack (exercise prescription app).
• Developed new services, including the
Long COVID clinic – Physiotherapy, Exercise
Physiology, Occupational Therapy, Speech
Pathology, Nutrition and Dietetics (Social
Work and Psychology provided by RPA
Virtual hospital).
Sydney Local Health District
