Assistant Health Minister Pru Goward has triggered divisions within the Baird government and drawn flak over her call for a probe into the health impacts on residents living near wind farms.

Ms Goward, whose roles include minister for Medical Research and Minister for Medical Health, used a public forum in Yass to throw her support behind complaints that wind turbines caused headaches and other sickness.

More potential turbulence for wind farms in NSW. Credit:Glen McCurtayne

"Increasingly, I am [of] the view that there is some validity on the health effects" of wind farms, Ms Goward was reported in the Yass Tribune as saying on Friday. "There are a number of people with health problems...it is clearly not psychosomatic."

Ms Goward went further on Monday, telling Fairfax Media turbines' blades created pressure waves that "resonate in the skulls" of people living as far away as five kilometres.