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released: 20 Sep 2011 author: AIHW media release

This report presents data on the number, nature and costs of public sector medical indemnity claims for the period 2004-05 to 2008-09, with a focus on 2008-09 claims. There were fewer new claims in 2008-09 (1,231) than in any of the four previous years (about 1,330 to 2,000 claims per year). As in previous years, the three health service contexts most often implicated were Accident and emergency, Obstetrics and General surgery.

ISSN 1833-7422; ISBN 978-1-74249-198-1; Cat. no. HSE 111; 118pp.; Internet Only

Publication

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary materials
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2008–09
      • Claims opened between 2004–05 and 2008–09
      • Claims closed between 2004–05 and 2008–09
      • Accident and emergency claims
  • Body sections
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 The collection
      • 2.1 Scope and context
      • 2.2 Policy, administrative and legal context
        • Claims management
      • 2.3 Data items
      • 2.4 Data coverage, completeness and quality
        • Data coverage and completeness
        • Missing data
        • Data quality
      • 2.5 Reporting the collection's claim characteristics
    • 3 Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2008–09
      • 3.1 New claims, 2008–09
        • Clinical service context
        • Geographic location
        • Specialties of clinicians
        • Primary incident/allegation type
      • 3.2 Current claims
        • Reserve range and duration
      • 3.3 Closed claims
        • Primary body function/structure affected
        • Extent of harm
        • Length and cost of claims
        • Mode of settlement
        • Claim payment details
        • Extent of harm and cost of claims
        • Clinical service context and cost of claims
    • 4 Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2004–05 to 2008–09
      • 4.1 Claim numbers
      • 4.2 Clinical service context and principal clinician specialty
      • 4.3 Primary body function/structure affected and primary incident/allegation type
      • 4.4 Extent of harm
      • 4.5 Mode of settlement and claim size
    • 5 Primary incident/allegation information on public sector medical indemnity claims closed between 2004–05 and 2008–09
      • 5.1 Clinical service context
      • 5.2 Sex and age of claim subjects
      • 5.3 Cost of claims
    • 6 Accident and emergency claims, 2004-05 to 2008-09
      • 6.1 Overview of Accident and emergency claims
        • Clinical service context
      • 6.2 Principal clinician specialties
      • 6.3 Extent of harm, claim size and primary incident/allegation type
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Background to the MINC collection
        • Background to the collection
        • Collaborative arrangements
        • Purposes of the collection
      • Appendix 2: MINC data items and key terms
      • Appendix 3: Policy, administrative and legal features in each jurisdiction
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix 4: Body function/structure categories
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures

Recommended citation

AIHW 2011. Australia's public sector medical indemnity claims 2008-09. Safety and quality of health care no. 9. Cat. no. HSE 111. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 12 January 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737419931>.