The NSW Government has deployed an NSW Health team to work alongside staff at Northern Beaches Hospital, Australia to prepare for the hospital’s eventual transition from a public private partnership.

The Transition Assessment and Planning (TAP) team, comprised of staff from the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD), will work collaboratively with their Healthscope colleagues to fully understand the priority areas when the hospital's operations are transitioned to NSLHD and NSW Health. The key focus for everyone involved will be to ensure there is no disruption to the provision of safe and efficient care at Northern Beaches Hospital, which continues to be operated by Healthscope.

Priority areas include the IT systems and clinical applications used by Healthscope, but not in use by NSW Health. The team will also identify other key areas where policy, procedure or practice gaps exist between how the hospital currently operates and how it will operate as part of the NSW Health system.

Negotiations are ongoing between the Northern Beaches Hospital Taskforce, Healthscope, and its receivers, including the resolution of highly complex contractual and financial arrangements in place for Northern Beaches Hospital.

It remains the preference of the NSW Government that a negotiated agreement on the future control and operation of the Northern Beaches Hospital can be achieved, but in the absence of agreement, the government has passed legislation to give it the authority to intervene and avoid a prolonged dispute for members of the community, hospital staff and NSW taxpayers.