Occasions of eye health services – Combined outreach programs
- Measure 4.4.4
- The number of occasions of service for First Nations people with eye health professionals, per 1,000 population, under all the outreach programs combined.
Outreach programs are designed to address the uneven distribution of the health workforce and to improve access to eye health services across Australia. (Figure 63)
Figure 63: Occasions of eye health services – Combined outreach programs, 2021–22
Measure 4.4.4: The number of occasions of service for First Nations people with eye health professionals, per 1,000 population, under all the outreach programs combined.
There are 2 charts for this measure showing the number occasions of service for all outreach services, by various characteristics.
Occasions of service – Combined outreach services 2021–22 (jurisdiction)
This vertical bar chart presents the number of occasions of service for all outreach programs combined, by jurisdiction. The chart shows that the highest number of occasions of service provided by an eye health professional was in Queensland (9,774) and the lowest number was in Tasmania (382).
Occasions of service – Combined outreach services 2014–15 to 2021–22 (Time trend)
This line chart shows trends in the number of occasions of service for First Nations peoplein all outreach programs from 2014–15 to 2021–22. Lines are presented for each of the 3 outreach program types (VOS, RHOF and MOICDP) and a line for total number of occasions of service for all outreach combined is also presented. In 2014–15 there were 27,269 occasions of service for all outreach programs. This peaked in 2017–18 at 39,020 and has since declined to 34,451 in 2021–22.
In 2021–22 a total of 34,451 occasions of service for First Nations patients were provided by eye health professionals under all the outreach programs combined. This was an increase on the 27,269 services provided in 2014–15.