Our Area Health Services model of healthcare management and delivery integrates primary and secondary health services.

Under this model, Tasmania is divided into three geographic areas: North, North West and South.

Area Health Services can to do the things they need to do, including devolving authority for sign-off to local service managers, while ensuring equity in access to and provision of services.

A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) leads a single Area Health Service management team responsible for all public health services in that area. Aided by the central Agency, the CEO also monitors and evaluates the model's effectiveness.

Area Health Services make decisions at the local level about where resources should go and create a linked healthcare service that places patients at the centre of the system.

Area Health Services allows and encourages local innovation in developing creative solutions to solve local issues. It creates a model where resources can move across the health sector to best serve the needs of communities.

Area Health Services involve their communities through Area Health Services networks - community forums that discuss local health issues and area funding priorities, and provide feedback.

These networks include patients, GPs and people representing hospitals, primary health, community organisations, mental health services and local government. These networks identify what is working at the local level and help determine the way forward.

Some specialist clinical services are delivered across the state through outreach from a single site in Tasmania or from interstate. Area CEOs ensure local patients get fair access to these services.

Area Health Services will ensure that over time all patients and clients can access integrated clinical services through a single entry point.