

Annually, there are over 21,000 medical operations, almost 5,800 births, and more than 75,000 presentations to emergency department. In 2016/17, Westmead Hospital provided more than 1.5m occasions of care to outpatients, in addition to approximately 107,000 inpatients. The hospital serves a population of 1.85m people and is located on one of the largest health and hospital campuses in Australia. Opened on 10 November 1978, the 975-bed hospital forms part of the Western Sydney Local Health District, and is a teaching hospital of Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney. Westmead Hospital is a major tertiary hospital in Sydney, Australia.
