Occasions of eye health services – Rural Health Outreach Fund
- Measure 4.4.2
- The number of occasions of service for First Nations people with eye health professionals, per 1,000 population, under the Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF).
Outreach programs are designed to address the uneven distribution of the health workforce and to improve access to eye health services across Australia. RHOF services are provided in Inner regional, Outer regional, Remote and Very remote areas only. (Figure 60 and Figure 61)
Figure 60: Occasions of eye health services – RHOF, 2011–12 to 2021–22
Measure 4.4.2: The number of occasions of service for First Nations people with eye health professionals, per 1,000 population, under the Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF).
Occasions of eye health services – Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF), 2011–12 to 2021–22
RHOF occasions of eye health services for Indigenous patients, time trend, 2011–12 to 2021–22
This line graph shows trends in the number of occasions of service for First Nations people under the RHOF from 2011–12 to 2021–22. The chart shows that, in 2011–12, there were 4,977 Indigenous occasions of service under the RHOF. This number increased to reach 8,652 in 2015–16, and then decreased to 5,870 in 2018–19. In 2021–22 there were 1,796 occasions of service.
In 2021–22, a total of 1,796 occasions of eye health services for Indigenous patients were provided under the RHOF.
Figure 61: Occasions of eye health services – Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF): interactive data
Occasions of eye health services – Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF): interactive data
There are 4 separate charts for this measure including one map showing the number and rate per 1,000 population for RHOF occasions of service, by various characteristics.
RHOF occasions of service, First Nations people by PHN, 2021–22 (bar chart)
This dual access horizontal bar and scatter plot presents the number and rate of RHOF occasions of service per 1,000 population, by PHN. PHNs are grouped by state and ordered from highest to lowest number of occasions of service. The PHN with the highest number of occasions of service was Country WA (589) and lowest was Gippsland (Victoria) with 5.
RHOF occasions of eye health services for First Nations patients, by region, 2021–22
This vertical bar chart presents the number of RHOF occasions of service in 2021–22, by remoteness. Inner and Outer regional areas have been combined as have remote and very remote. For Inner and outer regional areas there were 1,167 occasions of service (3 per 1,000) and for remote and very remote there were 629 occasions of service (4 per 1,000).
RHOF occasions of eye health services for I First Nations patients, by jurisdiction, 2021–22
This vertical bar chart presents the number and rate of RHOF occasions of service in 2021–22, by jurisdiction. The chart shows that the number of First Nations eye health occasions of service under the RHOF was highest in the NSW (684, or 4.4 per 1,000) followed by WA (589, or 9.2 per 1,000).
In 2021–22, the rate of First Nations eye health occasions of service under the RHOF was highest in Western Australia (9 per 1,000), followed by the New South Wales (4 per 1,000).