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The Women’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 is our roadmap.

Our four key strategic directions are:

We walk with First Nations peoples in a movement for a better future.

Through our second Reconciliation Action Plan, we aim to:

strengthen relationships and partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, consumers, staff, volunteers, organisations and stakeholders
promote culturally safe practices across our organisation to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people receive high quality, accessible, and culturally appropriate care
increase and improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment opportunities and provide a culturally safe workplace for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and volunteers.
increase our collective understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, customs, and identities.

Our Disability Action Plan provides a framework for how we will increase access and inclusion for people with disability.

In our second Disability Action Plan, our four key areas of focus are:

Service access: we will partner with people with disability in the design of our services and facilities to ensure user-friendly, women-centred healthcare and workspaces.
Changing attitudes and behaviours: we will tackle the direct and indirect discrimination and stereotyping that women and staff with disability experience.
Employment and volunteer opportunities and experiences: we will ensure our recruitment and selection processes are inclusive and barrier free, that we work to attract and retain talented and skilled people with disability, and we build the capacity of our people managers to advance inclusive workplace practices.
Inclusion and participation: we will ensure our marketing, consumer health information and digital information is accessible, inclusive and promotes positive and diverse representations of people with disability.

This plan sets out the actions we will take to achieve the following targets for the hospital's operations:

net zero carbon emissions by 2030
having 100% of the Women’s energy supply met through renewable energy source from 2025 onwards
the elimination of natural gas consumption from 2025 onwards
diversion of 80 per cent food waste from landfill by 2030
eliminating fleet emissions from 2025 through fleet conversion to hybrid / fully electric vehicles, and
ensuring that all of the Women’s policy, strategy and procurement decisions consider sustainability, when they are reviewed.