State and territory 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:
- The Northern Territory had the highest proportion of health check patients going on to receive a follow-up within 12 months, at 59% (11,600 patients with a follow-up).
- The Australian Capital Territory had the lowest follow-up percentage, at 30% (360 patients with a follow-up).
Trends over time
Among health check patients from 2018 to 2022:
- Follow-up percentages have been relatively steady in most jurisdictions.
- Tasmania and Western Australia had increases in follow-up percentages, concentrated in the earlier part of that period.
- The Australian Capital Territory has had an uptick in follow-up percentages in recent years, rising from 17% among 2020–21’s patients to 30% for 2022.
Figure 17: Use of follow-up services among health check patients, by state and territory, by year of health check, 2018 to 2022
A set of 2 interactive charts. Refer to table FS04 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 state and territory. The second is a line graph showing follow-up percentage between 2018 and 2022, varying by state and territory. Refer to table FS04 in data tables.