Indicators
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A set of performance indicators across the health and aged care system
Prepared by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for Health Ministers, June 2008
At the Australian Health Ministers' Conference of 29 February 2008, Ministers agreed to commission the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) to develop performance indicators to support the agreements that will replace the 2003-2008 Australian Health Care Agreements. The indicators were to allow for reciprocal public performance reporting and to cover the entire health and aged care system comprehensively. The objective of the work was to develop a performance indicator set by which the community could judge the performance of the system as a whole. A focus has been on performance indicators that relate to outcomes for patients and clients, which would be suitable for public reporting, and for which data are mostly already available and reported.
In addition, a priority has been to ensure that the performance indicators reflect reform directions announced to date by Health Ministers, by the Council of Australian Governments and by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission.
National reports
- National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators 2003 (9 December 2004)
- National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators 2001 (April 2002) [external link]
- National Health Performance Framework Report (August 2001) [external link]
- Fourth National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators (30 August 2000)
- Third National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators (1 July 1999)
- Second National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators (8 December 1998)
- First National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators (1 July 1996)