Company Profile
Northern Health
Company Overview
Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute and specialist services in Melbourne’s rapidly growing outer north.
Services are provided through our four main campuses:
Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre and Craigieburn Centre.
Our emergency department treats over 103,000 patients each year, cares for over 92,000 patients admitted to hospital, and assists with the delivery of over 3,200 babies each year.
The Northern Health catchment includes three of the state’s six growth areas: Hume, Whittlesea and Mitchell. The swift development of new suburbs in the north will see our population grow by 17% (85,000 people) in the next five years (to 2026) alone, and by over 50% (more than 248,000 people) between 2021 and 2036.
Northern Health cares for a diverse community, born in more than 185 countries, who speak over 106 different languages and follow over 90 different religions or beliefs.
Northern Health has over 6,300 dedicated professional staff and has annual revenue turnover of over $700 million.
In February 2019, the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System was formally established.
The final report of the Commission, which was tabled in a special sitting of the Victorian Parliament on 2 March 2021, recommends a mental health and wellbeing system that provides holistic treatment, care and support for all Victorians. These reforms will significantly change the way mental health services are delivered in Northern and Western metropolitan Melbourne.
Following from these recommendations, as of 1 July 2022 Northern Health is a designated mental health service.
On 4 July, we welcomed Northern Area Mental Health Services and North West Area Mental Health Services, We also welcomed the staff of Merv Irvine Nursing Home and McLellan House.
Collectively, this makes us the third largest mental health service in Victoria.
Company History
Northern Health is a dynamic health service, providing vital public healthcare to residents of Melbourne’s northern suburbs and the surrounding regional communities. Our five campuses offer services to a vastly diverse community at all stages of life.
Northern Health was born out of the desegregation of the North Western Health Care Network. These changes were made in order to improve the quality of services and to provide community focused health care.
The Northern Hospital first opened in February, 1998, and Northern Health was established in July, 2000.
Northern Health initially included Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital and Bundoora, but Northern Health took stewardship of Panch Health Service in 2003, and opened a fifth campus, Craigieburn, in 2007.
Each year our organisation continues to grow and develop as we adapt and improve services to meet the ever-changing needs of the community we serve. We are dedicated to providing the highest standards of clinical care and providing quality, innovative care in a compassionate manner.