Report on Government Services 2024
Health (part E) Produced by the Productivity Commissionon behalf of the Steering Committee for theReview of Government Service Provision. The Productivity Commission acknowledges the Traditional Owners ofCountry throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land,waters and community. We pay our respects to their Cultures, CountryandElders past and present. © Commonwealth of Australia2024 With the exception of content supplied by third parties, this copyright work islicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. In essence,you are free to copy, communicate and adapt the work, as long as you attributethe work to the Productivity Commission (but not in any way that suggests theCommission endorses you or your use) and abide by the other licence terms. Thelicence can be viewed at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Wherever a third party holds copyright in this material the copyright remains withthat party. Their permission may be required to use the material, please contactthem directly. ISSN 2205-5703 (online version) This work should be attributed as follows,Source: Steering Committee for the Reviewof Government Service Provision, Report on Government Services2024. If you have adapted, modified or transformed this work in anyway, please use thefollowing,Source: based on Steering Committee for the Review of GovernmentService Provision data, Report on Government Services2024. An appropriate reference for this publication is: SCRGSP (Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision)2024,Report on Government Services2024, Productivity Commission, Canberra. The Productivity Commission acts as the Secretariat for the Steering Committee. Publication enquiries:Phone 03 9653 2244 | email publications@pc.gov.au Report on Government Services 2024 PARTE: RELEASED ON 31 JANUARY 2024 Produced by the Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for Review of GovernmentService Provision. The content for this PDF is generated from the online, interactive publication.Data below are the most recent at the time of preparing the report. In some cases, charts and tablesmay present data for a single jurisdiction. To access data for all jurisdictions and the most currentdata available, go to:www.pc.gov.au/rogs E Health Data downloads These data tables relate to the sector as a whole. Data specific to individual service areas is in the datatables under the relevant service area. Health data tables (XLSX439.3 KB) Health dataset (CSV1.1 MB) Refer to the Sector overview text and corresponding table number in the data tables for detailed definitions,caveats, footnotes and data source(s). Note: Data tables are referenced by table xA.1, xA.2, etc, with x referring to the section or overview. Forexample, table EA.1 refers to data table 1 for this sector overview. Main aims of services within the sector The main objective of the health sector is that Australians are born and remain healthy. To this end,health sector services seek to promote, restore and maintain a healthy society through the deliveryof services that prevent illness, promote health, detect and treat illness and injury, rehabilitate andprovide palliative care. Services included in the sector Primary and community health Includes general practice, pharmaceutical services, dentistry, allied health services, maternal andchild health, alcohol and drug treatment and other services. Ambulance services Includes responding to and treating out-of-hospital medical emergencies. Public hospitalsIncludes care provided to admitted and non-admitted patients, including acute and non-acute care and mental health services. Services for mental health Includes MBS-subsidised mental health services provided by primary and community healthproviders, state and territory government specialised mental health services and non-governmentservices providing community-based support. Other major areas of government involvement in health provision not covered in the health sections,or elsewhere in the report, include public health programs (other than those for mental health) andfunding for specialist medical practitioners (although data on patient out-of-pocket costs for specialist services are provided as contextual information in the Primary and community healthsection). Detailed information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of service provision and theachievement of outcomes for primary and community health, ambulance, public hospital andservices for mental health are contained in service-specific sections. Government expenditure in the sector Total government recurrent expenditure for health services for the latest years covered in this reportwas $150.9 billion. Public hospitals was the largest contributor ($90.0 billion in 2021-22, table12A.1), followed by primary and community health ($55.4 billion in 2021-22, table 10A.1) andambulance services ($5.5 billion in 2022-23, table 11A.11