Gippsland Local Health Services Network
South Gippsland Hospital is one of eight health services that form the Gippsland Health Service Network.
On 1 July, 2025, Victoria’s Local Health Service Networks (Networks) were officially established. The Networks group health services within a geographical region and are responsible for supporting collaborative care for their community, as close to home as possible.
There are 12 Networks across Victoria. Each Network is responsible for:
- meeting their communities’ care needs as close to home as possible
- supporting more equitable and consistent care for patients
- increasing consistency of quality and safety of care
- strengthening workforce attraction, retention and support
- delivering support services at scale.
By working together across the Network, our health services will be able to better coordinate care, including escalating your care to a larger or specialist hospital if required and bringing your care closer to home for your ongoing care and recovery.
All Networks are focused on the same priority areas, currently these include:
- Access, equity and flow – improving care pathways for patients, clinical service planning across Networks, developing plans for better collaboration with the wider mental health and wellbeing sector in their region, and supporting aged care patients to stay out of hospital.
- Workforce – develop Network workforce plans and share data to strengthen and sustain the health workforce through a coordinated, regional approach to planning and managing staff.
- Safety and quality – increasing safety and quality of care, by embedding whole-system continuous improvements to deliver a safer, more person-centred, and sustainable health system.
- Shared services – identifying back-office efficiencies and sharing findings with other Networks.
Further information visit the Local Health Service Networks website.
