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SA Health is the overarching health portfolio of various services and agencies that are responsible to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. SA Health also engages with some non-government and community service providers on a formal, direct basis and more broadly, on policy and planning matters.

Vision and mission

SA Health (Opens in new tab) is committed to protecting and improving the health of all South Australians by providing leadership in health reform, public health services, health and medical research, policy development and planning, with an increased focus on wellbeing, illness prevention, early intervention and quality care.

How SA Health can help

These include:

  • public hospitals
  • metropolitan and country health service delivery
  • environmental health
  • communicable disease control
  • epidemiology
  • health promotion
  • pathology services
  • drug and alcohol services
  • emergency and ambulance
  • organ donation.
Resources
  • Clinical resources (Opens in new tab) - resources for clinicians and health care workers
  • Conditions (Opens in new tab) - information on common medical conditions and illnesses
  • COVID-19 (Opens in new tab) - latest advice from our medical experts
  • Healthy Living (Opens in new tab) – tips for better health, wellbeing and healthy lifestyle
  • Public Health (Opens in new tab) - protecting from disease and health hazards

Information lines / help lines

  • A full list of contact information for our services can be found here (Opens in new tab).

Recommended links

  • Aboriginal Health (Opens in new tab)
  • Vision, Mission and Workplace (Opens in new tab)
  • Awards (Opens in new tab)
  • Gender Equality (Opens in new tab)

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