The purpose of this inquiry was to explore the current evidence and challenges regarding contact sport-related concussion and repeated head injuries, and consider measures to improve the identification and prevention of these injuries, as well as reduce their short and long-term impacts.

Australia does not currently have a national sport injury data collection that includes community sport. This draft consultation report sets out a strategy to improve national sports injury data through the development of a National Sports Injury Data Asset (NSIDA).

The purpose of this project is to quantify the health spending related to physical activity within the Australian population. This initial report presents estimates of hospital spending related to emergency departments and hospital admissions (where diagnosis and external cause data is available).

This report examines sports injuries that were serious enough to require a person to stay in hospital. It does not include information on people who sought treatment at hospital emergency departments; general practitioner clinics; sports medicine centres; or from allied health practitioners such as physiotherapists.

This report focuses on acute care services provided by hospitals for sports injuries treated in Australian hospitals in 2012–13.