The Department of Community and Health Services replaced the Department of Community Services in 1993. It provided health care, including mental health, financial and other assistance to people with inadequate incomes, and managed family and children’s services, including the supervision of state wards. In 1998, its name changed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Ray Groom minority government, elected in 1992, supported by the newly formed Tasmanian Greens, amalgamated the Department of Community Services with the Department of Health Services to create the new Department of Community and Health Services. The government returned Corrective Services to the Department of Justice.