The potentially preventable hospitalisations (PPH) indicator is a proxy measure of primary care effectiveness. This report highlights disparities in PPH rates between populations.

The specialist homelessness services 2018–19 web report is the eighth annual report from the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC). It describes the characteristics of clients of specialist homelessness services, the services requested, outcomes achieved, and unmet requests for services during 2018–19.

This report brings together a range of data on children’s wellbeing and their experiences at home, school and in the community.

Analysis of consumer experience of residential aged care outlined in this report indicates that personal mobility, resident group birthplace characteristics, facility size and organisation type (not-for-profit, government or private) are factors that affect consumers’ responses.

Clients accessing alcohol and other drug treatment services across Australia commonly have multiple episodes of treatment spanning several years. This report categorises 3 client groups based on their patterns of service use between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2018.