Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
    • Claim numbers
    • Claim costs and circumstances
    • Length of time between health-care incident and claim closure
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • 1.1 Structure of this report
    • 2 The Medical Indemnity National Collection
      • 2.1 MINC (public sector)
      • 2.2 MINC (private sector)
      • 2.3 Claim management practices
      • 2.4 Data items and definitions
      • 2.5 Policy, administrative and legal context
      • 2.6 Reporting claim characteristics
      • 2.7 Health sector contextual information
    • 3  Public sector medical indemnity claims  for 2011-12
      • 3.1 New claims
      • 3.2 Current claims
      • 3.3 Closed claims
    • 4 Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2007-08 to 2011-12
      • 4.1 Claim numbers
      • 4.2 New claims: clinical service context and primary incident/allegation type
      • 4.3 New claims: principal clinician specialty
      • 4.4 New claims: primary body function/structure affected
      • 4.5 Current claims: reserve range and duration
      • 4.6 Closed claims: cost and duration
      • 4.7 Closed claims: mode of claim finalisation
      • 4.8 Closed claims: extent of harm
      • 4.9 Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on the year their reserve was set
      • 4.10 Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on year of incident
    • 5  Public and private sector medical  indemnity claims for 2011-12
      • 5.1 New claims: health service setting
      • 5.2 New claims: primary incident/allegation type
      • 5.3 New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/allegation type
      • 5.4 New claims: patients' sex and age group and primary incident/allegation type
      • 5.5 New claims: primary body function/structure affected
      • 5.6 Current claims: duration and reserve range
      • 5.7 Closed claims: duration and total claim size
      • 5.8 Closed claims: total claim size and mode of finalisation
      • 5.9 Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
      • 5.10 Closed claims: total claim size and specialty  of clinician
      • 5.11 Closed claims: total claim size and extent of  harm
    • 6 Public and private sector medical  indemnity claims, 2007-08 to 2011-12
      • 6.1 Claim numbers
      • 6.2 New claims: health service setting and primary incident/allegation type
      • 6.3 New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/allegation type
      • 6.4 New claims: patients' sex and age group and primary incident/allegation type
      • 6.5 New claims: primary body function/structure affected
      • 6.6 Current claims: reserve range and duration
      • 6.7 Closed claims: total claim size and duration
      • 6.8 Closed claims: total claim size and mode of claim finalisation
      • 6.9 Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
      • 6.10 Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
      • 6.11 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) 2011-12 data quality statement
        • Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector) 2011-12 data quality statement
        • Statistics on 2011-12 Not known rates
      • Appendix C: Public and private sector claim management practices
        • Public sector
        • Private sector
      • Appendix D: Changes to jurisdiction, policy, administrative and legal features
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix E: Health sector contextual information
        • Health workforce
        • Hospital services
      • Appendix F: Claim cohort analysis data
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes