Regional data and local level variation

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To monitor, and report on, the performance of the following: • Local hospital networks • Public hospitals • Private hospitals • Primary health care organisations • Other bodies or organisations that provide health care

services.

About NHPA

Role of NHPA – performance reports

We provide information through reports and our websites about the comparable performance of local health organisations and local health outcomes “Monitor, and report on, the comparable performance of health care organisations to stimulate and inform improvement in the Australian health system, increase transparency and accountability and inform consumers”

www.nhpa.gov.au www.myhospitals.gov.au

Our websites

www.myhealthycommunities.gov.au

Reports

Report products • PDF report • Technical supplement • Media release • Interactive websites • Sub-regional maps

(SA3) • User-friendly information

about the data • METeOR specifications • Downloadable Excel

spreadsheets

MyReport

It’s free and easy to use • Uses Healthy Communities report data • Choose from more than 70 health

measures including:

• Obesity rates • Childhood immunisation • Life expectancy • Avoidable hospitalisations • Cost barriers to health care.

• Select the local area/s you’re interested in

and follow the easy steps to generate your custom MyReport

Go to www.myhealthycommunities.gov.au, click on the MyReport tab and select the measures you want from five categories: • Health status and outcomes • Prevention • Use of health services • Experiences with health services • Expenditure on health services. Choose from more than 70 health measures including

It’s free and easy to use – Get Started

Your report will automatically include results for each measure, presented in an easy-to-read table, as well as information about the data sources and explanatory notes. You can also choose to include: • National maps with metropolitan area insets • Medicare Local catchment visual summaries. MyReport uses data from reports published by the National Health Performance Authority.

What will your report contain?

How to build your Report?

How to build your Report?

How to build your Report?

How to build your Report?

How to build your Report?

Producing information at small area level • Indicators and data sources • Challenges in reporting at small area level

– Suppression of data • Variation

Indicators

61 Medicare locals We have grouped these local areas into peer groups( metro, regional, rural) based on location and population characteristics so fair comparisons can be made between different areas Primary Health Networks from mid-2015. MyReport will include data using these new boundaries when they are agreed. Lower level reporting where possible eg SA3 and postcode

Healthy Communities- levels of reporting

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4 September 2014 Insert->Header & Footer

Choose from over 70 measures

Public reporting as a catalyst for change Healthy Communities: Immunisation rates for children in 2011–12

• Almost 77,000 Australian children not fully immunised

• Results were broken down to more than 300 local areas and in some cases individual postcodes

• More than 700 media stories over 30 days

• NSW Cabinet backed legislation to amend the Public

Health Act

• From 1 January 2014 NSW children now required by law to show immunisation records to childcare providers at enrolment

Launched 11 April 2013

Continued dialogue in 2014 Healthy Communities: Immunisation rates for children in 2012–13

• Rates improving, lowered by almost 2,000 (75,002 in 2012–13)

• National rate for fully immunised five-year-old children up (90.0% in 2011–12 to 91.5% in 2012–13)

• However, some areas where rates are still low

• *New information* conscientious objectors and HPV

• Front page coverage (page two and three spread) in the Sydney Morning Herald and coverage across print, TV, radio and online

• 30 day media coverage almost 300 media articles, audience reach over 15 million

• Petition for government to improve rates (Courier Mail)

Launched 27 March 2014

Hitting the headlines

• 80% of adults overweight or obese

• Lowest rate = 49% in a wealthy urban area. Still very high!

• % of adults who smoke daily almost four times higher in some areas

• Front page coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald on launch (during the October 2013 bushfire crisis)

• Almost 300 media articles within 30 days. Audience reach over 5.3 million. Stories still appearing …

Launched 24 October 2013

Healthy Communities: Overweight, obesity and tobacco smoking rates in 2011–12

Hitting the headlines

• 33,000 deaths potentially avoidable • These accounted for more than 60% of

deaths in persons 75 years and older • Life expectancy at birth up to 8.5 years from

one community to another • Quality and focused media coverage with

120 media articles within 30 days, audience reach almost 2 million

• High stakeholder interest and supporting

media releases issued

Launched 12 December 2013

Healthy Communities: Avoidable deaths and life expectancies in 2009–2011

The future- what next?

The role of NHPA is to provide information through reports and our websites about the comparable performance of local health organisations and local health outcomes Future: • Measuring up

• Indicator development • Providing Information

• Website development

Keep in touch • See our upcoming reporting schedule at www.nhpa.gov.au • Subscribe by emailing your details to media.enquiries@nhpa.gov.au • Follow us on Twitter @NHPAreporting