Australia's medical indemnity claims 2010-11
Australia's medical indemnity claims 2010-11 looks at the number, nature and costs of public sector (excluding Western Australia) and private sector medical indemnity claims. In 2010-11, there were more new claims in the public than the private sector (1,500 and 1,300 respectively) and similar numbers closed across the sectors (1,400 in the public sector and 1,450 in the private sector). About half of closed claims (53%) were for less than $10,000, compared with 41% settled for between $10,000 and $500,000, and 6% settled for $500,000 or more.
ISSN 1833-7422; ISBN 978-1-74249-346-6; Cat. no. HSE 124; 168pp.; $26
Publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Body section
- Introduction
- The Medical Indemnity National Collection
- MINC (public sector)
- MINC (private sector)
- Claim management practices
- Data items and definitions
- Policy, administrative and legal context
- Reporting claim characteristics
- Health sector contextual information
- Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2010-11
- New claims
- Current claims
- Closed claims
- Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2006-07 to2010-11
- Claim numbers
- New claims: clinical service context and primary incident/allegation type
- New claims: principal clinician specialty
- New claims: primary body function/structure affected
- Current claims: reserve range and duration
- Closed claims: cost and duration
- Closed claims: mode of claim finalisation
- Closed claims: extent of harm
- Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on the year their reserve was set
- Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on year of incident
- Public and private sector medical indemnity claims for 2010-11
- New claims: health service setting
- New claims: primary incident/allegation type
- New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/allegation type
- New claims: sex and age group of claim subjects and primary incident/allegation type
- New claims: primary body function/structure affected
- Current claims: duration and reserve range
- Closed claims: duration and total claim size
- Closed claims: total claim size and mode of finalisation
- Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
- Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
- Closed claims: total claim size and extent of harm
- Public and private sector medical indemnity claims, 2007-08 to 2010-11
- Claim numbers
- New claims: health service setting and primary incident/allegation type
- New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/ allegation type
- New claims: sex and age group of claim subjects and primary incident/allegation type
- New claims: primary body function/structure affected
- Current claims: reserve range and duration
- Closed claims: total claim size and duration
- Closed claims: total claim size and mode of finalisation
- Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
- Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
- Closed claims: total claim size and extent of harm
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: MINC data items and key terms
- Appendix B: Data quality
- Medical Indemnity National Collection(Public Sector) data quality statement
- Medical Indemnity National Collection(Private Sector) data quality statement
- Statistics on data coverage, completeness and quality
- Appendix C: Public and private sector claim management practices
- Appendix D: Changes to jurisdiction, policy, administrative and legal features
- Appendix E: Health sector contextual information
- Health workforce
- Hospital services
- Appendix F: Claim cohort analysis dat
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
Recommended citation
AIHW 2012. Australia's medical indemnity claims 2010-11. Safety and quality of health care no. 13. Cat. no. HSE 124. Canberra: AIHW.