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Department of Health Notes to the financial statements For the year ended on 30 June 2023 2.1 Department objectives (continued) 5. Aged and Continuing Care Services Contents The provision of aged and continuing care services and community based palliative care services. Aged and continuing care services include programs that assess the care needs of older people, provide functional interim care or support for older, frail, aged and younger people with disabilities to continue living independently in the community and maintain independence, inclusive of the services provided by the WA Quadriplegic Centre. Aged and Continuing Care Services is inclusive of community based palliative care services that are delivered by private facilities under contract to the WA health system, which focus on the prevention and relief of suffering, quality of life and the choice of care close to home for patients. 6. Public and Community Health Services The provision of healthcare services and programs delivered to increase optimal health and wellbeing, encourage healthy lifestyles, reduce the onset of disease and disability, reduce the risk of long-term illness as well as detect, protect and monitor the incidence of disease in the population. Public and Community Health Services includes public health programs, Aboriginal health programs, disaster management, environmental health, the provision of grants to non-government organisations for public and community health purposes, emergency road and air ambulance services and services to assist rural based patients travel to receive care. 7. Pathology Services The provision of state-wide external diagnostic services across the full range of pathology disciplines, inclusive of forensic biology and pathology services to other WA Government agencies and services provided to the public by PathWest. This Service also includes the operational costs of PathWest in delivering services to both health service providers and the public. 8. Community Dental Health Services Dental health services include the school dental service (providing dental health assessment and treatment for school children); the adult dental service for financially, socially and/or geographically disadvantaged people and Aboriginal people; additional and specialist dental; and oral health care provided by the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia to holders of a Health Care Card. Services are provided through government funded dental clinics, itinerant services and private dental practitioners participating in the metropolitan, country and orthodontic patient dental subsidy schemes. 9. Small Rural Hospital Services Provides emergency care and limited acute medical/minor surgical services in locations 'close to home' for country residents/visitors, by small and rural hospitals classified as block funded. This includes providing community care services aligning to local community needs. 10. Health System Management - Policy and Corporate Services The provision of strategic leadership, policy and planning services, system performance management and purchasing linked to the state-wide planning, budgeting and regulation processes. Health System Policy and Corporate Services includes corporate services inclusive of statutory financial reporting requirements, overseeing, monitoring and promoting improvements in the safety and quality of health services and system wide infrastructure and asset management services. 11. Health Support Services The provision of purchased health support services to WA health system entities inclusive of corporate recruitment and appointment, employee data management, payroll services, workers compensation calculation and payments and processing of termination and severance payments. Health Support Services includes finance and business systems services, IT and ICT services, workforce services, project management of system wide projects and programs and the management of the supply chain and whole of health contracts. < 140 About us Significant issues Report on operations Agency performance Operational disclosures Key performance indicators Financial disclosures and compliance • Appendix

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