​​​The Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) is now in use at Justice Health NSW and at NSW Health Pathology’s John Hunter Hospital Laboratory in Newcastle.

As a his­toric first for NSW Health, the Sin­gle Dig­i­tal Patient Record is now being used at Jus­tice Health NSW and NSW Health Pathol­o­gy (John Hunter Hos­pi­tal Lab­o­ra­to­ry), mark­ing the first go live of the statewide rollout.

The Sin­gle Dig­i­tal Patient Record is set to trans­form how peo­ple expe­ri­ence and deliv­er health­care across NSW Health by bring­ing patients’ health infor­ma­tion togeth­er in one secure place, mak­ing health­care more con­nect­ed and seam­less across the state.

This means that when a patient vis­its any NSW health ser­vice, our clin­i­cians and health­care teams will have access to the right infor­ma­tion, at the right time, when it mat­ters most.

The intro­duc­tion of the Sin­gle Dig­i­tal Patient Record at these first NSW Health sites is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone and rep­re­sents an impor­tant step in the broad­er roll­out across NSW. Hunter New Eng­land Local Health Dis­trict and remain­ing NSW Health Pathol­o­gy Hunter New Eng­land sites are sched­uled to go live in May 2026.

The pro­gram will con­tin­ue to be intro­duced in tranch­es, with Sin­gle Dig­i­tal Patient Record expect­ed to be oper­a­tional across all NSW Health local health dis­tricts and spe­cial­ty health net­works by the end of 2028.

The deliv­ery of the pro­gram is focused on a whole-of-health, col­lab­o­ra­tive approach. Clin­i­cians, patients, car­ers, con­sumers, and tech­ni­cal experts are involved and help­ing to shape it​. This is impor­tant for mak­ing sure it meets the needs of those who use it and sup­ports the deliv­ery of high-qual­i­ty care.

This achieve­ment reflects the sig­nif­i­cant work under­tak­en by all teams across NSW Health to pre­pare sys­tems, infra­struc­ture and staff for the tran­si­tion to this excit­ing once-in-a-gen­er­at​ion change.

Thank you to all of the amaz­ing staff in the Sin­gle Dig­i­tal Patient Record Imple­men­ta­tion Author­i­ty, Jus­tice Health NSW, NSW Health Pathol­o­gy, eHealth NSW and across the whole of NSW Health who have sup­port­ed us to reach this milestone.

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