This report presents performance results for public hospital capacity, and emergency department and planned surgery waiting times; as well as hospital expenditure. It notes increasing wait times for essential surgeries and longer waits for patients in emergency departments; highlighting the need for increased investment by both state and federal governments.

This fact sheet highlights primary health care as vital in preventing, identifying and managing health in local populations to keep people out of hospital emergency departments and in-patient beds. It presents information on potentially preventable hospitalisations and lower-urgency presentations to emergency departments, and includes both community and professional perspectives.

Showing a worrying decline in both performance and capacity within mental health departments of public hospitals, this report identifies gaps and makes recommendations about where improvements are needed to provide better care to patients who have presented with mental health-related conditions.

This report explores the relationship between patient experience and socioeconomic disadvantage in NSW, showing that social determinants can present a major barrier to health access, experience and outcomes. It reveals a decline in patient experience, particularly in regional areas, with cost emerging as a significant barrier to accessing healthcare.

The current primary care after-hours system is complex, fragmented, and difficult to navigate, resulting in too many people seeking emergency care for non-emergency health needs. This report presents key findings from a comprehensive review of the system, outlines strategic themes and opportunities for reform and proposes next steps for Government.