Far West LHD media releases

The breast screen clinic will be open in Broken Hill from Monday 28 April – Friday 9 May, 2025.

The Broken Hill Health Service Redevelopment has reached two significant milestones with the completion of the first stage of the $12 million Emergency Department (ED) upgrade and the building structure complete for the new Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit.

Patients, families, and carers are invited to nominate exceptional local Far West Local Health District (FWLHD) staff members, as part of the District’s 15 th annual Staff Recognition and Health Innovation Awards. 

The popular school-based apprenticeship and traineeship (SBAT) program has commenced at Far West Local Health District for 2025, with 11 students taking part.

Far West Local Health District (FWLHD) has welcomed more than 20 new graduate nurses and midwives providing a boost to local health services across Far West NSW.

Far West Local Health District (FWLHD) is encouraging all of us to stand together in solidarity during Ochre Ribbon Week (12-19 February 2025) to raise awareness and foster safer communities for Aboriginal people.

The Far West Local Health District is celebrating one staff member who has been named as a finalist in the 2025 Excellence in Allied Health Awards.

People are being urged to seek help if they notice changes in their health, with new data from the Cancer Institute NSW showing 235 people are projected to be diagnosed with cancer in Far West Local Health District in 2025.

Communities in Broken Hill, Tibooburra, Wentworth, Buronga and Dareton are set to benefit from new Key Worker Accommodation which will help attract, recruit and retain more healthcare workers.

A new support group is available in Far West Local Health District (FWLHD) for people who have been diagnosed with cancer in the last five years.