Concord Hospital

Concord Hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. The hospital has a long tradition of providing care to the Veteran community and today provides health care to the inner west of Sydney.

The hospital has a long established reputation of excellence in the provision of healthcare services with 24 consecutive years of accreditation by the Australian Council on Health Care Standards, which recognizes quality in health care. Concord is the first teaching hospital to receive back to back 5year Accreditation Awards, as well as three consecutive 3 year Accreditation Awards from the Post Graduate Medical Council of NSW for the exemplary training of postgraduate doctors.

Concord offers a comprehensive range of specialty and sub-specialty services, many of which are recognised nationally and internationally as centres of excellence. These include Burns, Colorectal Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetic Laboratory, Aged and Extended Care and Gastroenterology.

Concord Centre for Mental Health

The Concord Centre for Mental Health is a new state of the art mental health complex recently opened on the campus of the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, a large tertiary referral general hospital.

The facility is picturesquely situated by the banks of the Parramatta River, next to the spacious park like surrounds of the Sir Thomas Walker estate.

Concord Centre for Mental Health has 174 beds catering for patients with a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders & operates on a phase of illness model with specialist units catering for the needs of people at different levels of recovery.

These include Intensive Psychiatric Care & High Dependency beds, an Early Intervention Program for young people with their first episode of psychosis, longer term treatment facilities for people with residual disabilities & a rehabilitation unit for people with chronic mental illness to enable them to develop skills to move into community living.

There is also a thirty bed acute Psychogeriatric Unit catering for the mental health needs of people over the age of 65 & training is available in Addiction Psychiatry in conjunction with the Addiction Medicine Department of Concord Hospital..

It is envisaged an Acute Adolescent Unit catering for 14 young people will be opening later this year.

There is a purpose built ECT suite, a high quality occupational therapy unit & a spectrum of recreational facilities including a swimming pool & kiosk.

All registrar positions have been accredited for training by the RANZCP & top priority is given to ensure high quality training & supervision.

There is an active education program including examination workshops for registrars approaching College examinations.

There is also a chair of Psychiatry of the University of Sydney’s Department of Psychological Medicine.

Contact

Phone:     02 9767 8900
Fax:           02 9767 8901
Address: Hospital Road, Concord NSW 2139