Project objectives
In the 1990’s Jim Pearse and Deniza Mazevska led a group developing method for peer grouping hospitals for funding, benchmarking and other purposes (J Bridges, D Mazevska, J Pearse, I Smoker (2000) Designing a Nationally Acceptable System of Hospital Peer Grouping Australian Health Review 23(1):193-201). In 2009, 2011 and 2013, HPA was engaged to review the peer groups and to address specific issues that had emerged at the time.
The 2013 review was concerned with reviewing the peer groups for comparative reporting. Until then the peer groups were used by the Department for pricing for activity based funding (known as episode funding in NSW).