Australian Health Care Agreements

The State of Our Public Hospitals, June 2007 report

The State of Our Public Hospitals, June 2007 report provides a picture of our public hospitals during 2005-06.

The report publishes data provided by the states and territories and reports against an agreed set of performance indicators established under the 2003-2008 Australian Health Care Agreements. This year the report includes a focus on older Australians in hospital. It also reports on hospital rehabilitation services.

To improve consistency with other published sources of national hospital statistics, some new calculation methods are used in this report (see Appendix for details). Wherever required, some statistics from earlier years have been recalculated for this report and may not be consistent with statistics provided in previous editions.

The state of our public hospitals, June 2007 report in full (PDF 2668 KB)


Minister's Foreword (PDF 124 KB)


Overview (PDF 523 KB)


1. The What, Where and Who of Australia's hospitals (PDF 556 KB)

2. The 'ins' of public hospitals (PDF 468 KB)

3. Surgery in public hospitals (PDF 448 KB)

4. The 'outs' of public hospitals (PDF 606 KB)

5. Older Australians in hospital (PDF 430 KB)


Appendix (PDF 320 KB)


Fact Sheet Australia (PDF 104 KB)

Fact Sheet New South Wales (PDF 102 KB)

Fact Sheet Victoria (PDF 102 KB)

Fact Sheet Queensland (PDF 101 KB)

Fact Sheet Western Australia (PDF 101 KB)

Fact Sheet South Australia (PDF 102 KB)

Fact Sheet Tasmania (PDF 102 KB)

Fact Sheet Australian Capital Territory (PDF 102 KB)

Fact Sheet Northern Territory (PDF 102 KB)

Technical Reference Guide

The technical reference guide provides more detail about how the statistical figures in this report were calculated.

Technical Reference Guide (Excel 299 KB)

Previous editions of The State of Our Public Hospitals Report

The state of our public hospitals, June 2006 report describes the performance of public hospitals in 2004-05 and includes a focus on public hospitals in rural and remote areas.

The state of our public hospitals, June 2005 report describes the performance of public hospitals in 2003-04 and includes detailed comparisons between public and private hospitals.

The state of our public hospitals, June 2004 report provides a five year overview of how our public hospitals performed during the 1998-2003 Australian Health Care Agreements (data from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2003).


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