This committee oversees the development of health expenditure
statistics and meets two or three times a year. It provides a mechanism for both data users and data suppliers of health
expenditure statistics to give advice and assistance to the Institute about the
methods used in developing the national estimates and the way those estimates
are presented and analysed.
The committee consists of
representatives from AIHW, the Department of Health and Ageing, state and
territory health departments, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the
Commonwealth Grants Commission, the Department of Veterans' Affairs,
Medicare Australia and the
Private Health Insurance Administration Council. It is anticipated that the
range of participating organisations may be expanded over time to include
some other non-government organisations and academics with an interest in
expenditure on health in Australia.
