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Healthcare 2011–12: Comparing performance across Australia Governments’ progress under COAG’s National Healthcare Agreement. The Hon John Brumby Chairman, COAG Reform Council 24 May 2013. Adults daily smoking rate. Smoking rates - Geographic location and socio-economic status.
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Healthcare 2011–12: Comparing performance across AustraliaGovernments’ progress under COAG’s National Healthcare Agreement. The Hon John Brumby Chairman, COAG Reform Council 24 May 2013
Smoking rates - Geographic location and socio-economic status
Other key findings • Aged care • Potentially preventable hospitalisations • Elective surgery
Emergency Department Wait Times Proportion of emergency department patients seen within national benchmarks across all triage categories increased to 70% nationally.
“Sustainability is a difficult concept to measure as it requires an assessment of the capacity of the current health system to be viable in the future and relies on input measures of human, capital and financial resources.”
Recommendation 3: “…develop more comprehensive performance indicators for reporting progress against the sustainability outcome of ensuring that the health system can respond and adapt to future needs.”