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DISTRICT PROFILE

Toowoomba and Darling Downs Health Service District

Elements of this profile updated: 10/04/2008

TARGET AUDIENCE: General Public

This section - SOURCE: District Manager, 10 April 2008
REVIEW DATE: May 2008

Physical Address: Toowoomba Hospital Pechey Street TOOWOOMBA QLD 4350
Postal Address: PMB 2 Toowoomba 4350
General Phone: +61 7 4616 6000
General Fax: +61 7 4616 6170
Zone: Southern
Office Hours: 0800 to 1700

Senior Staff:
District Manager: Michelle McKay
Executive Director Medical Services: Dr Peter Bristow
District Director Nursing & Midwifery Services: Ms Judy March
Executive Director Community and Allied Health: Ms Mary Coman
Executive Director Mental Health: Shirley Wigan
Executive Director District Support Services: Ms Bronwyn Whelan
Executive Director Rural Services : Mr Stewart Gordon
Director of Nursing/Facility Manager Oakey Health Service and Mt Lofty Heights Nursing Home: Mrs Lynn Boundy
Executive Director, Toowoomba Hospital: Ms Linda Hardy

District Health Council Members:

NAME OCCUPATION
Toowoomba HCC .
Mr Kevin Saide Chair
Mr Jonathan Ferguson .
Ms Wendy Gavin .
Ms Genevieve Sayers .
Mr Geoffrey Brabook .
Ms Christine McKeon .
Dr Eddie Roos .
Northern Downs HCC .
Mrs Ailsa Gilmour Chair
Mrs Helen Townsend .
Mrs Sandra Hobbs .
Miss Cecilia Donohoe .
Ms Jane Gately-Leggett .
Southern Downs HCC .
Ms Marie Pietsch Chair
Mr Cliff Farrell .
Mr Arthur Marriott .
Ms Theresa Nicholas .
Ms Alison Gaffney .
Dr David Downs .
Mr Darryl Chapman .

Hospital Facilities within District:

Health Services:

Community Health Services Gatton; Oakey; Toowoomba; Crows Nest; Mobile Breast Screening; Toowoomba Child Youth & Family Services; Toowoomba Public Medicine; Child and Youth Mental Health; Adult, Older Person's Mental Health
Dental Services Clinics - Gatton, Toowoomba Oral Health, Bailie Henderson Schools - Toowoomba East District, Toowoomba Harlaxton District, Toowoomba North, Toowoomba Rangeville District Mobile
Aged Care Dr EAF McDonald Nursing Home, Mount Lofty Nursing Home
Private Health Facilities in District Private hospitals/day centres = 5 private nursing homes (profit) = 4 private nursing homes (non profit) = 7 private hostels (non profit) = 4



Capital Works or Recent Improvements:

Nil



This section - SOURCE: Health Information Centre

Geographic Description of the District’s Administrative Area:

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State Electorate/s in District:

Callide Cunningham Darling Downs
Lockyer Nanango Southern Downs
Toowoomba North Toowoomba South Warrego
   

Population and Socio Demographic Data:

Estimated Resident Population 30 June 2005 - Total: 238,992


by gender

Female: 119,799 (50.1%) for Qld: 50.0%
Male: 119,193 (49.9%) for Qld: 50.0%

by age

Age District (numbers, %) Qld (%)
0-14 51,834 (21.7%) 20.4%
15-34 64,869 (27.1%) 28.3%
35-49 49,242 (20.6%) 21.8%
50-64 40,906 (17.1%) 17.4%
65-74 17,185 (7.2%) 6.5%
75+ 14,956 (6.3%) 5.6%

ABS Cat. 3235.3.55.001, Health Information Centre
Review Date: October 2007

Census 2001 by Place of Enumeration
by ATSI and NESB background

  District (numbers, %) Qld (%)
Indigenous persons 5761 (2.6%) 3.1%
NESB 5496 (2.5%) 6.9%

ABS 2001 Census, Health Information Centre
Review Date: October 2007

District Public Hospital Episodes of Care for top 10 DRGs (v5.0) - 2005/2006 :

Total Inpatients (public and private)

DRG No DRG Name Number of Episodes
L61Z Admit for Renal Dialysis 5,380
O66B ANTENATAL&OTH OBSTETRIC ADM,SD 1,475
R63Z CHEMOTHERAPY 1,264
O60B Vaginal Delivery W/O Catastrophic or Severe CC 1,066
G67B OESPHS, GASTR&MIS DIG A>9-CSCC 814
F74Z CHEST PAIN 789
O60C VAGINAL DEL SINGLE UNCOMPL 632
G44C Other Colonoscopy, Sameday 601
Z64A OTH FCTR INFL HEALTH STATUS 521
G45B OTHER GASTRPY+N-MJR DIG DIS,SD 488

Health Information Centre
Review Date: March 2008