Public Hospital Report Card 2023

State-by-State Public Hospital Performance

This section includes performance information for each State and Territory using available data sources. A summary of State performance is shown in Table 1. It represents 2020-21 compared to the previous year. The funding section of the Table 1 reflects the 2019-20 data.

Table 1: State and Territory performance 2021-22 compared to the previous year. Latest hospital per person funding data are for the year 2020-21

State/Territory Improved access to emergency treatment – Category 3 (within 30 mins) 2021-22  Improvement in proportion of patients leaving emergency within 4 hours 2021-22 Improvement in median wait time for planned surgery (all categories) 2021-22 Improvement in Planned Surgery Category 2* – patients seen on time 2021-22 Commonwealth public hospitals per person funding (constant prices) 2020-21 (latest data) State public hospitals per person funding (constant prices) 2020-21 (latest data)
NSW
VIC
QLD
WA
SA static static
TAS static
ACT
NT static

Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Planned surgery waiting times 2019-20 to 2021-22: Australian hospital statistics. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Emergency department care 2020-21 to 2021-22: Australian hospital statistics. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Health Expenditure Australia 2020-21, data visualisation. 

*Treating patients within clinically recommended time - Category 2 (within 90 days) or indicates a change in performance of at least 1 per cent compared to 2019-20. In the case of per person public hospital funding the or shows a change of 1 per cent or more between 2019-20 and 2020-21. Median wait time for elective surgery expressed in days. or indicates a change of at least 1 day compared to 2019-20.