Project objectives

HPA developed the inaugural reports of safety and quality and performance reporting for a few different organisations. Examples include:

Chartbook for Safety and Quality of Health Care in Australia – Australian Council for Safety and Quality, 2004.

Quality of Health Care in NSW: Chartbook 2007 – NSW Clinical Excellence Commission.

The State of Our Public Hospitals reports – Department of health and Ageing, 2004 and 2005.

The State of Our Public Hospitals reports were required under the 2003–2008 Australian Health Care Agreements and provided an overview of Australian hospital activity and performance. They were later incorporated into the AIHW’s Australian Hospital Statistics publications.

Australian Council for Safety and Quality

NSW Clinical Excellence Commission

Department of Health and Ageing

Our approach

To develop these publications, HPA used its detailed understanding of a range of health data sources (hospital statistics, population data and national surveys), skills in managing data, preparing and cleaning of data, data visualisation, interpreting data and drawing out policy implications.

Outcome

These reports set the framework for future publications in these series.

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