Better Information on Australian Hospitals

2 November 2011

MyHospitals presents information on hospitals throughout Australia and how they compare against national and state and territory data, including:

* Hospital profile
* Services offered
* Number of admissions
* Waiting times for emergency departments and elective surgery
* Safety and quality (Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia)

MyHospitals is based on the latest available information provided to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare by state and territory health departments for public hospitals, and by private hospitals that have elected to be included in MyHospitals.

On The 27th of October, the Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon made the announcement that the website would now be including information on infection rates which means that for the first time all Australians are able to see how well their local public hospital is controlling serious staph blood infections (staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia), with the release of hospital infection rates on the MyHospitals website.

The Chief Executive of the Australian Health Insurance Association, Dr Michael Armitage welcomed the Government’s decision to publish hospital acquired infection rates on the MyHospitals website as an important step towards improving health outcomes for all Australians. He congratulated the Government on moving towards greater transparency, in a move which he said “will be welcomed by consumers and which is long overdue. The expansion of MyHospitals from a website which provides information on patient admissions and services available to one which includes safety and quality performance indicators will give health consumers the option to make better informed decisions about their health care,” he said.

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