Northern Health provides health care services to over
700,000 people living in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and
semi-rural regions beyond the city fringe. Northern Health
manages 613 beds and provides care in acute, sub-acute
and community settings over five campuses. At Northern
Health, acute stroke care is provided at The Northern Hospital
(TNH), a 300 bed facility designated as a Category B
hospital by the National Stroke Audit.4 This means that The
Northern Hospital has immediate access to CT scanning,
access to high dependency unit, a geographically located
stroke unit but no on-site neurosurgery.