Australian Health Care Agreements

The State of Our Public Hospitals, June 2008 Report

The State of Our Public Hospitals, June 2008 Report provides a snapshot of public hospital activity in 2006-07. The State of Our Public Hospitals report includes a focus on Indigenous Australians in hospitals and includes a feature chapter titled State and Territory Public Hospital Performance Reporting.

The 2008 Report is based on data collected in 2006-07. The aim of the report is to inform the Australian public about the performance of hospitals by providing information on the hospitals, their patients and the range of services provided.

This year the report has a focus on Indigenous Australians with a feature chapter titled Indigenous Australians in Hospitals.

The 2008 Report also includes a feature chapter titled State and Territory Public Hospital Performance Reporting which covers how state and territories are currently reporting individual hospital performance.

The State of Our Public Hospitals, June 2008 Report in full (PDF 3895 KB)

Minister’s Foreword (PDF 623 KB)

Introduction (PDF 922 KB)

1. Our hospitals (PDF 1226 KB)

2. Our patients (PDF 1088 KB)

3. Our surgery (PDF 1076 KB)

4. Our emergency departments (PDF 1085 KB)

5. Our outpatients (PDF 224 KB)

6. Indigenous Australians in hospital (PDF 1418 KB)

7. State and Territory public hospital performance reporting (PDF 520 KB)

Appendix (PDF 1107 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 311 KB)

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