The consequences of institutional racism can have a serious effect and has been widely recognised as needing to be addressed. This report summarises the outcome of the Health Performance Council’s work in this area in South Australia.

The purpose of the report is to assess the levels of institutional racism that Aboriginal people are subject to in South Australia’s local health networks (LHN).

In this report, the Health Performance Council monitors mental health access and outcomes by selecting Report on Government Services 2020 mental health indicators that can be compared between states and territories and arranges them into broad topic areas.

This report summarises and reports on the key issues that came up in the responses to the Health Performance Council community consultation asking about experiences of people with disability engaging with health services. The consultation ran from March to April 2020.

This is the second edition of a bitesize Health Performance Council report pinpointing potential health inequalities by analysing South Australian public hospital data, looking for hospitalisations that are potentially preventable, variation by where people live in the state, and opportunities to improve.