Australian Health Care Agreements

The State of our Public Hospitals, June 2009 report

The state of our public hospitals, June 2009 report provides a snapshot of public and private hospital activity in 2007-08. The 2009 report is based on data collected in 2007-08.

The 2009 report includes four feature chapters. The first feature is titled "Turning our public hospitals around" and provides information about hospital reform directions agreed between the Commonwealth and all State and Territory Governments. The second, titled "Our maternity services", provides information on the number and type of maternity services provided by hospitals and their associated costs. The third feature titled "Indigenous Australians in hospital" describes Indigenous hospital use compared to that of other Australians. The final feature is titled "State and territory public hospital performance reporting" and includes details of state and territory online hospital reporting.

The report can be downloaded in full from the following link:

The state of our public hospitals, June 2009 report in full (PDF 2971 KB)

Or by chapter by using the links below:

Minister’s Foreword (PDF 112 KB)

Introduction (PDF 249 KB)

1. Our hospitals (PDF 822 KB)

2. Our patients (PDF 379 KB)

3. Our surgery (PDF 361 KB)

4. Our emergency departments (PDF 406 KB)

5. Our outpatients (PDF 263 KB)

6. Turning our public hospitals around (PDF 370 KB)

7. Indigenous Australians in hospital (PDF 436 KB)

8. Our maternity services (PDF 246 KB)

9. State and Territory public hospital performance reporting (PDF 486 KB)

Appendix (PDF 179 KB)


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