Remoteness Area comparisons
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Notes
- This section reflects the number and proportion of health check patients who received a follow-up service in the 12 months following their health check, by the year that their health check was delivered.
Some people who have health checks will not need follow-up services. If it were possible, excluding those individuals from the denominator could potentially increase the percentages markedly and reveal different variation.
Some records from a small number of service providers have been excluded due to data quality concerns.
Geographic information
This analysis is based on the postcode of the patient’s given mailing address. As a result, the data may not always reflect where the person actually lived – particularly for people who use PO boxes. This is likely to impact some areas more than others and will also have a generally greater impact on the accuracy of smaller geographic areas and more remote areas.
Latest data
Among health check patients in 2022:
- Major cities had a follow-up percentage of 46% (37,000 patients with a follow-up).
- Inner regional areas had a follow-up percentage of 44% (25,200 patients).
- Outer regional areas had the lowest follow-up percentage, at 43% (23,900 patients).
- Remote areas had a follow-up percentage of 49% (7,600 patients).
- Very remote areas had a follow-up percentage of 49% (10,000 patients).
Trends over time
Among health check patients from 2018 to 2022:
- The follow-up percentages in Remote and Very remote areas have reduced in recent years since they peaked in 2019 (both at 49% in 2022, down from 53% and 55%, respectively).
- Patients in other remoteness areas had relatively stable follow-up patterns.
Figure 19: Use of follow-up services among health check patients, by Remoteness Area, by year of health check, 2018 to 2022
A set of 2 interactive charts. Refer to table FS06 in data tables. A long description is available below.
A set of 2 interactive charts. The first is a bar graph showing the proportion of health check patients who had a follow-up within 12 months of their health check, by Remoteness Area. The second is a line graph showing follow-up percentage between 2018 and 2022, varying by Remoteness Area. Refer to table FS06 in data tables.