Australian Health Care Agreements 1998-2003 Performance Report

This report covers the five years of the first Australian Health Care Agreements and focuses on hospital activities for public patients. As a condition of the Agreements, all jurisdictions were required to provide data relating to the performance of their hospitals over the five year period. The tables in this report have been compiled from the data provided by the states and territories.

In this section:

Australian Health Care Agreements Links
Use the links below to help navigate your way around the Australian Health Care Agreements area

>>Individual Health Care Agreements
>>Pathways Home
>>The state of our public hospitals, June 2004 report
>>The state of our public hospitals, June 2005 report
>>The state of our public hospitals, June 2006 report

Chapter 1 - About the Report (PDF 64 KB)

Chapter 2 - Patient Numbers (PDF 905 KB)

Chapter 3 - Hospital Costs & Funding (PDF 897 KB)

Chapter 4 - Waiting Times (PDF 600 KB)

Chapter 5 - Types of Services (PDF 736 KB)

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