Health Facility Locations in New South Wales

Spatial Services (DCS) maintains a point-feature dataset of health facilities across New South Wales, Australia, updated to the GDA2020 geodetic standard. The data includes locations for ambulance stations, children's hospitals, general hospitals, and psychiatric hospitals, positioned within their cadastral parcels. It is part of the Features of Interest Category database, historically captured for topographic mapping.

Use Cases

• Mapping ambulance station coverage for emergency response planning based on the 'Ambulance' feature type.
• Analyzing spatial equity of hospital access for different demographics using 'General Hospital' and 'Children’s Hospital' points.
• Planning community health services by identifying facility locations relative to population centers.
• Updating basemaps and geographic information systems with verified health facility locations.

Strengths

• Updated to the national GDA2020 geodetic standard, improving positional accuracy and compatibility.
• Provides specific categorization of facility types (Ambulance, Children’s Hospital, General Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital).
• Features are positioned within cadastral parcels, linking them to land administration data.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, specific column names, and license information is unavailable from the provided sources.
• The dataset's temporal coverage and update frequency are not explicitly stated.
• The description suggests the data is limited to point locations and does not describe other attributes like capacity or services offered.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), New South Wales Government

Collection Method

Historically captured as part of the NSW topographic mapping program.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-09 according to the most recent platform entry.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia