ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • July 31st, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PB c–Better health: reduce the age-adjusted prevalence rate for Type 2 diabetes to 2000 levels (equivalent to a national prevalence rate (for 25 years and over) of 7.1 per cent) by 2023, 2022
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2010) Health, Superseded 08/06/2011National Healthcare Agreement • September 20th, 2022
Quality statement: National Healthcare Agreement: P52-Falls resulting in patient harm in residential aged care, 2010 QS Health, Superseded 08/06/2011
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2022) Health, Standard 24/09/2021National Healthcare Agreement • September 1st, 2022
Analysis will be undertaken using the ‘period’ method of calculation. See Cancer survival and prevalence in Australia: period estimates from 1982 to 2010.
ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • September 16th, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PB g–Better health services: the rate of Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) bacteraemia is no more than 2.0 per 10,000 occupied bed days for acute care public hospitals by 2011–12 in each state and territory, 2020
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-Potentially avoidable deaths, 2018 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • September 22nd, 2022
Institutional environment: These collections are conducted under the Census and Statistics Act 1905. For information on the institutional environment of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), including the legislative obligations of the ABS, financing and governance arrangements, and mechanisms for scrutiny of ABS operations, see ABS institutional environment.
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2020) Health, Standard 13/03/2020National Healthcare Agreement • July 6th, 2022
Analysis will be undertaken using the ‘period’ method of calculation. See Cancer survival and prevalence in Australia: period estimates from 1982 to 2010.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a–Waiting times for emergency hospital care: proportion seen on time, 2022National Healthcare Agreement • July 8th, 2022
Description: Percentage of patients whose clinical care commenced within national benchmarks for waiting times for each triage category in public hospital emergency departments.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 53-Older people receiving aged care services, 2011National Healthcare Agreement • June 21st, 2022
Description: Number of people aged 70 years and over plus Indigenous people aged 50-69 years, receiving aged care services in community settings or residential settings
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013National Healthcare Agreement • June 26th, 2022
Computation description: Causes of death in scope: 'Chronic renal failure' (ICD-10 codes N18.0, N18.8, N18.9), 'hypertensive renal failure' (ICD-10 codes I12.0, I13.1, I13.2) or 'unspecified renal failure' (ICD-10 code N19.0) as an underlying cause of death or 'chronic renal failure, end-stage' (ICD-10 code N18.0) as an associated cause of death.
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2010) Health, Superseded 08/06/2011National Healthcare Agreement • May 17th, 2022
Computation description: People in the denominator are matched for age (to match to ‘age at diagnosis’ for people in the cancer cohort), sex and calendar year.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25–Rate of community follow up within first seven days of discharge from a psychiatric admission, 2022National Healthcare Agreement • September 14th, 2022
patient mental health care service unit(s) for which a community mental health service contact, in which the consumer or their carer/support person participated, was recorded in the 7 days following that separation.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 20- Potentially avoidable deaths, 2012 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • September 4th, 2022
Institutional environment: These collections are conducted under the Census and Statistics Act 1905. For information on the institutional environment of the Australian Bureau of
National Healthcare Agreement: PB b–Better health: halve the mortality gap for Indigenous children under five by 2018, 2021National Healthcare Agreement • July 17th, 2022
Computation: 100,000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Variability bands are to be calculated for rates using the following method for estimating 95% confidence intervals: CI (CR) = CR ± 1.96 x (CR/√d) where d = number of deaths CI = confidence interval CR = crude rate Rate ratios and rate differences are calculated for comparing Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The rates for a single year use single year data for the numerator and the denominator.
ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • May 16th, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PB d-Better health: by 2018, increase by five percentage points the proportion of Australian adults and children at a healthy body weight, over the 2009 baseline, 2015
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08–Major causes of death, 2018National Healthcare Agreement • July 4th, 2022
Description: Age-standardised mortality rate by major cause of death, and rate ratios for Indigenous people and people living in remote or low socioeconomic areas.
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2016) Health, Superseded 31/01/2017National Healthcare Agreement • June 21st, 2022
Count (a) number of deaths where ‘acute coronary heart disease’ (ICD-10 codes I20–I24) is the underlying cause of death in each calendar year (based on year of registration of death).
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2013 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • May 20th, 2022
Institutional environment: The Australian Health Survey (AHS) was collected, processed, and published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS operates within a framework of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975. These ensure the independence and impartiality from political influence of the ABS, and the confidentiality of respondents.
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 Outcome area: Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 Quality statement: National Healthcare Agreement: PI 25-Specialist services, 2012 QS Health,...National Healthcare Agreement • July 3rd, 2022
The definition of specialist services is all items in the Department of Health and Ageing and Medicare Australia broad type of service groups for:
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 23– Unplanned hospital readmission rates, 2022National Healthcare Agreement • September 10th, 2022
Description: Unplanned and unexpected hospital readmissions to the same public hospitals within 28 days for selected surgical procedures.
ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • May 9th, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PB g–Better health services: the rate of Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) bacteraemia is no more than 2.0 per 10,000 occupied bed days for acute care public hospitals by 2011–12 in each state and territory, 2016
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 58: Patient experience/satisfaction, 2011 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • June 25th, 2022
Institutional environment: The Patient Experience Survey is a topic on the Multipurpose Household Survey, collected, processed, and published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS operates within a framework of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975. These ensure the independence and impartiality from political influence of the ABS, and the confidentiality of respondents.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21-Treatment rate for mental illness, 2012 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • July 6th, 2022
State and Territory jurisdictions differ in their approaches to counting clients under care, including different thresholds for registering a client. Additionally, they differ in their capacity to provide accurate estimates of individual persons receiving mental health services. Therefore comparisons between jurisdictions need to be made with caution.
ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • June 6th, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PB 06-The rate of Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) bacteraemia is no more than 2.0 per 10,000 occupied bed days for acute care public hospitals by 2011–12 in each state and territory, 2011
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2010) Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 Outcome area: Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010National Healthcare Agreement • August 27th, 2022
Computation description: Includes GP/VRGP non-referred attendances; Enhanced primary care; Practice nurse services; Other non-referred attendances
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 19-Selected potentially avoidable GP-type presentations to emergency departments, 2018 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • July 2nd, 2022
The scope of the data used to produce this indicator is non-admitted patients registered for care in emergency departments in public hospitals reporting to the National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database (NNAPEDCD). It does not include emergency presentations to hospitals that have emergency departments that are not reported to the NNAPEDCD.
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2010) Health, Superseded 08/06/2011National Healthcare Agreement • June 25th, 2022
See also National Healthcare Agreement: P39-Healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) bacteraemia in acute care hospitals, 2010
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30a–Elapsed time for aged care services: residential aged care, 2021National Healthcare Agreement • May 28th, 2022
Description: The elapsed time between an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) approval and entry into a residential aged care service.
ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • June 10th, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 68-Proportion of recurrent health expenditure spent on health research and development, 2012
ContractNational Healthcare Agreement • July 22nd, 2022
National Healthcare Agreement: PB 02-By 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate (Baseline specification), 2012
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21a– Waiting times for emergency hospital care: Proportion seen on time, 2017National Healthcare Agreement • August 20th, 2022
Description: Percentage of patients who are treated within national benchmarks for waiting times for each triage category in public hospital emergency departments.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Bowel cancer screening rates, 2011 QSNational Healthcare Agreement • June 21st, 2022
The suspension of the NBCSP due to a fault in the FOBT kit, and the subsequent remediation process, greatly affected the COAG participation rates for 2009 and should be taken into account when comparing to previous or future COAG data for this indicator. Participation rates were lower when measured against the estimated resident population because fewer people had an opportunity to participate as a result of:
Indicator set: National Healthcare Agreement (2018) Health, Superseded 16/06/2019National Healthcare Agreement • June 23rd, 2022
Life expectancy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations is calculated for a rolling 3-year period and reported every 5 years.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 06-Life expectancy, 2015National Healthcare Agreement • September 11th, 2022
Description: The average number of years a person could expect to live if they experienced the age/sex specific death rates that applied at their birth throughout their lifetime.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 08–Major causes of death, 2022National Healthcare Agreement • August 20th, 2022
Description: Age-standardised mortality rate by major cause of death, and rate ratios for Indigenous people and people living in remote or low socioeconomic areas.
National Healthcare Agreement: PI 29-Private sector mental health services, 2011National Healthcare Agreement • September 1st, 2022
Description: Ambulatory mental health services provided by private psychiatrists, GPs and allied health providers (psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, mental health nurses and Aboriginal health workers).
