Department of Health strategic plan
The Department of Health Strategic Plan 2021–2025 (Nov 2022 update) (PDF 1822 kB) is a core planning document for the department.
It outlines the department's strategies for supporting the health and wellbeing of all Queenslanders.
This plan was updated in November 2022.
Our Vision
A world class health system for all Queenslanders.
Our purpose
To provide highly effective health system leadership.
Our challenges
- A sustainable health system
- Implementing system, service and practice improvements based on timely access to information and data
- Preparedness for system-wide threats
- Resource allocation to ensure the best and most equitable health outcomes for all Queenslanders
- Working as one health system to drive change and achieve health system priorities
- Capacity and capability of the department to achieve its goals
- Eliminate institutional racism and discrimination across the public health system
- Building capacity to meet healthcare needs in the right setting across the health and social care sectors
- Effectively managing health system led emergency responses while continuing to deliver quality health services
Our opportunities
- Harnessing the power of clinician and consumer engagement and co-design
- Driving health access and equity reform agenda
- Enhancing networking and integration across the system
- Enabling access and use of data and intelligence across the system
- Effectively engaging, empowering and developing our workforce
- Strengthening system foundations that enable better health system outcomes
Our objectives
- Promote and protect the health of all Queenslanders where they live, learn, work and play
- Interconnected system governance and partnerships with primary care, which drive co-designed models of care and care pathways to support Hospital and Health Services
- Support and advance our workforce
- Advance Health Equity for First Nations people
- Health reform that plans for a sustainable future
Previous strategic plans
- Department of Health Strategic Plan 2021–2025 (2022 update) (PDF 1817 kB)
- Department of Health Strategic Plan 2021–2025 (PDF 1933 kB)
- Department of Health Strategic Plan& 2019-2023 (2021 objectives update) (PDF 661kB)
- Department of Health Strategic Plan 2019–2023 (2020 update) (PDF 954kB)
- Department of Health Strategic Plan 2019–2023 (2019 update) (PDF 1.24MB)
- Department of Health strategic plan 2016–2020 (2018 update) (PDF 902kB)
- Department of Health Strategic plan 2016-2020 (2017 update) (PDF 752kB)
- Department of Health Strategic plan 2016-2020 (PDF 819kB)
- Department of Health Strategic plan 2014-2018 (2015 update)
- Department of Health strategic plan 2014-2018
- Department of Health strategic plan 2012–2016 (2013 update)
Last updated: 2 December 2022
