New South Wales Government provided certain information about yet-to-be-opened Northern Beaches Hospital. The hospital, which will be privately run, is expected to open in 2018.

NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the hospital will be having 250 public beds. She said 173 extra beds, but privately managed, will also be added.

Doctors at one of the major hospitals in Sydney are angered at a decision taken by the hospital under which they have forced closure of some beds at the facility.

There has been a lot buzz about a Western Sydney hospital where a woman was left with no option but to gulp down painkillers before giving birth to her baby. It has been claimed that the Mount Druitt woman was apparently in a maternity unit at Blacktown Hospital before she gave birth on Wednesday morning.

While there is good news that organ donation rate has seen a rise in 2012, it has been claimed that NSW has not managed to cross small regions. As compared to previous figure of 77, this year saw 88 people donating organs, as per Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA).

A recent report has uncovered that a set of new smoke-free laws for outdoors are to be introduced soon in New South Wales. This is why it is being hoped that people can now heave a sigh of relief.

A research is being commissioned by the NSW Government to study the effect of mixing alcohol with energy drinks.

The Health Union has disapproved the idea of implementing single crew ambulances saying its implementation will be "grossly irresponsible".

The Secretary of the Union, Gerard Hayes said that the deployment of single crew ambulances was away from actual practice and could cost lives. The proposal for the same was kept on Tuesday and is yet awaited to be approved.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has raised concerns over waiting times at NSW emergency departments. They have come across latest Bureau of Health Information report, which has revealed waiting times have increased to such an extent that it has been putting patients' lives at risk.

Concerns were raised by NSW's opposition leader John Robertson that they have retrieved a document under freedom of information. The document stated that 902 people will have to lose their jobs so that needed savings can be made.

It would be strange to know that when all other people feel reluctant to get tested for HIV and go into a state of shock finding themselves positive for the virus, a woman, Diane Nyoni, was relaxed on hearing the same.