The plan to go live in March of 2026 is on track, with staff training now to support their colleagues across the state.
NSW Health’s single digital patient record is a step closer to being operational with training of staff now underway across the state’s 17 local health districts.
Nearly 200 staff from LHDs and specialty health networks have volunteered to support the delivery of SDPR training and received their orientation training earlier this week.
The SDPR will be implemented across the state in five stages, with more than 25,000 healthcare staff across Hunter New England LHD, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network and NSW Health Pathology’s Hunter New England sites to be among the first to access it, with plans to go live in March 2026.
The new system will unify the nine electronic medical records, 10 patient administration systems and five laboratory information management systems currently in use across NSW Health. It will cover more than 220 public hospitals, more than 150 pathology collection centres, 65 laboratories and approximately 600 community health centres across the state when fully complete in 2028.
State health minister Ryan Park met the trainees on Monday.
“The formal credentialing of these new trainers for the first stage of the roll out is a significant achievement to preparing staff for the SDPR,” he said.
“[It’s] the biggest healthcare transformation that the state has seen and will change the way healthcare is delivered and received in NSW.
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“It will give clinicians access to enhanced analytics, dashboards, reporting functionality and data visualisation tools will also help support patient safety.”
Tracey McCosker, CEO of the HNE LHD, said the SDPR would “provide opportunities to free up more time for patient care”.
“[It will] also provide greater continuity of care for patients wherever they interface with our services across the state,” she said.
“The system will provide wonderful opportunities for patients to have better and more timely information about their own health and greater control over their interactions with our health services.
“It will also facilitate more flexible access to healthcare for people in rural and regional areas.”