Eye health measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2025: interactive data

The number of occasions of service for First Nations people, per 1,000 population, under all the outreach programs combined: Measure 4.4.4

Outreach programs are designed to address the uneven distribution of the health workforce and to improve access to eye health services across Australia. (Figure 64)

Latest data

In 2023–24, eye health professionals provided a total of 48,185 occasions of service for First Nations patients under all the outreach programs combined (VOS, RHOF and MOICDP).

By jurisdiction

In 2023–24, the highest number of First Nations occasions of service provided by an eye health professional under the combined outreach programs was in Queensland (14,601) followed by New South Wales (13,042) (Figure 64 – jurisdiction).

Time trend

In 2017–18, health professionals provided 39,020 First Nations occasions of services in relation to eye health under the combined outreach programs. This number increased to 48,185 in 2023–24 (Figure 64 – time trend).