The number of fall events resulting in hospitalisation due to injury for older Australians remains high. This report focuses on hospitalised falls occurring in the financial year 2005-06 and examines trends in fall-related hospitalisations over the period 1999-2006. This report is the second in a series of biennial reports on hospitalisations due to falls by...

Applying the usual international criteria, Australia and NSW have a public hospital system of high standard. What then is the public to make of the alarming reports which regularly appear in the media and suggest quite the opposite? One explanation is that even the best systems are not immune from crises and the public health...

NSW public hospitals are plagued by massive systemic failures, as diagnosed in the Garling report. At the same time, hospital costs are blowing out, and may yet bankrupt the NSW budget despite a massive federal bailout under the COAG agreement. The situation requires dramatic and fundamental changes to hospital management—not additional layers of bureaucratic control...

This report presents statistics on injuries that resulted in admission to hospitals in Australia. It includes cases discharged during the year to 30 June 2005. Unintentional falls, transport-related injury, intentional self-harm and assault are common causes of hospitalised injury in the Australian community. Injuries due to these and other causes are described, in terms of...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) as distinct from head injury, is characterised by an external impact to the head that results in damage to the brain. This report describes hospitalisations for TBI in Australia for the period 2004–2005. This report describes hospitalisations for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Australia for the period 2004–2005. TBI, as distinct...