COAG Reform Council

Healthcare

National Partnership Agreement on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan: Period 3 assessment report

Under the National Partnership on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan, each State and Territory has agreed targets for the number of elective surgery volume admissions over three reporting periods.

States and Territories are eligible for reward payments made by the Commonwealth if they meet their targets. The council's role is to provide the Commonwealth with an independent assessment of the achievement of the agreed targets.

This is the council's third and final report on the National Partnership on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan.

This report was submitted to COAG on 8 August 2011, and publicly released on 6 September 2011.

National Partnership Agreement on Essential Vaccines: Performance report for April 2010–March 2011

This is the council’s second report on the National Partnership Agreement on Essential Vaccines. The council has assessed the performance of all States and Territories against four benchmarks based on maintaining, and, where possible, improving immunisation coverage rates.

This report was submitted to COAG on 10 August 2011, and publicly released on 6 September 2011.

National Partnership Agreement on Essential Vaccines: Performance report for April 2009–March 2010

This is the council’s first report on the National Partnership Agreement on Essential Vaccines.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 June 2011, and publicly released on 9 August 2011.

National Healthcare Agreement: Performance report for 2009–10

This is the council’s second year report on the National Healthcare Agreement, reporting progress against the objectives and outcomes compared to the baseline data summarised in the 2008 - 09 report on performance.

This report was submitted to COAG on 29 April 2011, and publicly released on 8 June 2011.

This report was considered by COAG at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response to the report can be found on the COAG website.

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National Partnership Agreement on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan: Period 2 assessment report

This is the council's second of three reports on the National Partnership on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 November 2010, and publicly released on 13 December 2010.

On 8 December 2010, the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Minister for Health announced that the Commonwealth would allocate a total of $108 million in reward payments—the full amount available—to States and Territories for exceeding their targets to increase elective surgery operations under Periods 1 and 2 of this National Partnership.

National Partnership Agreement on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan: Period 1 assessment report

This is the council's first of three reports on the National Partnership on the Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 June 2010, and publicly released on 21 September 2010.

National Healthcare Agreement: Baseline performance report 2008–09

The COAG Reform Council’s National Healthcare Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008 - 09 is an assessment of the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments against the National Healthcare Agreement’s seven objectives—prevention, primary and community care, hospital care, aged care, patient experience, social inclusion and Indigenous health, and health system sustainability.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 April 2010, and publicly released on 4 June 2010.

COAG publicly responded to this report at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response can be found on the COAG website.

Three corrigenda have been issued for this report. On 4 July 2011, the council issued corrigenda 1 and 2, and on 28 May 2010, the council issued corrigendum 3. The original text has not been edited.

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