Almost 7.2 million emergency department presentations were reported by public hospital emergency departments in Australia during 2013-14. Summary How many emergency department presentations were there? Almost 7.2 million emergency department presentations were reported by public hospital emergency departments in 2013-14, corresponding to over 19,700 presentations each day. Emergency department presentations increased by 7.2% between 2012-13...

In 2013-14, Australia's public hospitals admitted almost 700,000 patients from elective surgery waiting lists, this report finds. Summary How much elective surgery was there in 2013–14? In 2013-14, Australia's public hospitals admitted almost 700,000 patients from elective surgery waiting lists (as either elective or emergency admissions). Almost 1 in 4 of these patients was admitted...

This working paper uses linked data from Western Australia and New South Wales to assess the likelihood that a patient who is hospitalised with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) will have ESKD recorded on their death record, in order to establish whether mortality records in Australia reflect the actual disease pattern of people with ESKD. Summary...

Summary: In 2012-13, Australia's 601 private hospitals accounted for 45% of the country's 1,347 hospitals and 34% of all hospital beds. These private hospitals employed over 60,000 staff and had a total income of $11.8 billion. The private hospitals can be grouped into 2 main categories: the 319 that provide services on a day-only basis...

This is the third in a planned series of annual reports providing a detailed picture of the national response to the palliative care needs of Australians.