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National Health Performance Authority, Healthy Communities: After-hours GP attendances, 2013–14

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termIndicator
Short name:Help on this termAfter-hours GP attendances, 2013–14
METEOR identifier:Help on this term620169
Registration status:Help on this term
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Description:Help on this termThe number of after-hours GP-attendances per person per year.
Indicator set:Help on this termNational Health Performance Authority: Healthy Communities: 2011–
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016

Collection and usage attributes

Population group age from:Help on this termAll Ages
Computation description:Help on this term

GP after-hours attendances are Medicare benefit-funded after-hours patient/doctor encounters, such as visits and consultations, for which the patient has not been referred by another doctor. They include urgent and non-urgent non-referred attendances.

Relevant non-referred Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items used in this indicator are:

For urgent attendances after hours, all items in MBS Group A11 (Urgent attendance after hours).

For non-urgent attendances after hours, all items in MBS Groups A22 (General practitioner attendances to which no other item apples) and A23 (other non-referred after hours attendances to which no other item applies).

Rates are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. In undertaking age standardisation of MBS data, the age of each person was determined from the last MBS service of any type, processed by the Department of Human Services in 2013–14.  All MBS services for each individual processed in 2013–14, were attributed this age. For MBS data, Primary Health Network (PHN) and SA3 were derived from the enrolment postcode for each person from the last MBS service of any type, processed by the Department of Human Services in 2013–14.  All MBS services for each individual processed in 2013–14 were attributed to this postcode. MBS postcode level data were allocated to PHN and SA3 regions using concordance files provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

SA3 level data for 2013-14 are not directly comparable to previous years due to a change in method for allocating post-office box (PO box) addresses to SA3 geographies. The change in method means that data for people with a PO box postcode recorded as their residential address may be included in SA3 totals.

Individual SA3 level data has been provided for the Northern Territory for 2013-14. Previously, this data was provided at the state level only.

Numerator data - Medicare (MBS) data provided by the Department of Health for the financial year of processing, 2013–14.

Denominator data – Estimated Resident Population at 30 June 2013 provided by ABS. 

Presented as average per person.

Before MBS data are published by NHPA all confidential data cells are suppressed.

The current definition of confidential data is as follows:

  • For number of MBS services:
    • if number of services is less than 6 or
    • if number of services is equal to or greater than 6 but
      • one provider provides more than 85% of services or two providers provide more than 90% of services or
      • one patient receives more than 85% of services or two patients receive more than 90% of services.
  • If data on number of services is confidential, corresponding data on other measures such as MBS benefit paid is also regarded as confidential.

Computation:Help on this term

(Numerator ÷ Denominator)

After-hours GP attendances 2013–14

After-hours GP attendances, age standardised 2013–14

For more information about age-standardisation, please see:

/content/index.phtml/itemId/327276

 

Numerator:Help on this termNumber of after-hours GP attendances claimed through the Medicare Benefits Schedule.
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Person—age, total years N[NN]

Data Source

Medicare (MBS) data

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Address—Australian postcode, Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}

Data Source

Medicare (MBS) data

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data

Data Element / Data Set

Person—General Practitioner MBS out of hours health assessment indicator, yes/no code N

Data Source

Medicare (MBS) data

Guide for use

Data source type: Administrative by-product data.

Denominator:Help on this termTotal estimated resident population (ERP) of Australia at 30 June 2013
Denominator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Person—estimated resident population of Australia, total people N[N(7)]

Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Guide for use

Data source type: Census based plus administrative by-product data

Disaggregation:Help on this termBy Primary Health Network areas
Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Address—statistical area, level 3 (SA3) code (ASGS 2011) NNNNN

Data Element / Data Set

Administrative health region—Primary Health Network identifier, code AAANNN

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termMean (average)
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termPerson
Format:Help on this termNNNN.N

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termPAF-Equity of access

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

ABS Estimated resident population (total population)

Frequency

Quarterly

Quality statement

ABS Estimated resident population (total population), QS

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

Medicare (MBS) data

Frequency

Annually

Data custodian

Department of Health

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this termNational Health Performance Authority-Performance & Accountability Framework
Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this term

For MBS data Department of Health.

For ERP data Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Accountability:Help on this termNational Health Performance Authority
Further data development / collection required:Help on this termSpecification: Long-term
Release date:Help on this term19/11/2015

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termNational Health Performance Authority
Origin:Help on this termHealthy Communities
Reference documents:Help on this termNational Health Performance Authority-Performance & Accountability Framework

Relational attributes

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Supersedes National Health Performance Authority, Healthy Communities: After-hours GP attendances, 2012–13
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
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