NSW’s sole women’s-only clinic dedicated to trauma ends ‘gamechanging’ focus

Ramsay Clinic Thirroul has dropped its ‘gamechanger’ focus on trauma to take general female mental health patients under a public-private partnership with the NSW government. Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images

In 2022 Ramsay Healthcare opened Australia’s first women’s-only hospital “dedicated” to trauma-related mental health issues in Wollongong.

Ramsay Clinic Thirroul was supposed to be a “gamechanger” designed specifically to provide women – often survivors of family and sexual violence – the safe environment needed to be able to escape the flight or fight stress response and begin to recover through a program of therapies.