Overview
There are a total of five public hospitals in the Northern Territory. These are:
- Royal Darwin Hospital
- Alice Springs Hosptial
- Katherine Hospital
- Tennant Creek Hospital
- Gove District Hospital
The hospitals provide general services ranging from primary screening and prevention to acute and chronic care. But with issues such as remoteness, a scattered population and the absence of alternative health care providers, hospitals in the Northern Territory also provide a series of non-acute services to their communities.
All of the hospitals are connected using a new service called eHealthNT. The service allows patients medical information to be transferred instantly between hospitals over a secure network. The new service eliminates the need for paper-based medical information to be faxed or posted and ultimately speeds up every process within the hospital.
Darwin is also the base for the Northern Territory Clinical School (NTCS). The school trains and provides placement opportunities for medical students from Flinders University and James Cook University. Additional campuses are located in Alice Springs, Katherine and Nhulunbuy to train students in a rural environment.