Eye health measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2024: interactive data

The number of occasions of service for First Nations people, per 1,000 population, under all the outreach programs combined: Measure 4.4.4

Outreach programs are designed to address the uneven distribution of the health workforce and to improve access to eye health services across Australia. (Figure 64)

Latest data

In 2022–23, eye health professionals provided a total of 45,043 occasions of service for First Nations patients under all the outreach programs combined (Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS), Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF) and Medical Outreach Indigenous Chronic Disease program (MOICDP)).

By jurisdiction

In 2022–23, the highest number of First Nations occasions of service provided by an eye health professional under the combined outreach programs was in Queensland (14,425) followed by New South Wales (13,049) (Figure 64 – jurisdiction).

Time trend

In 2014–15, health professionals provided 27,269 First Nations occasions of services in relation to eye health under the combined outreach programs. This number increased to 45,043 in 2022–23 (Figure 64 – time trend).

Figure 64: Occasions of eye health services – Combined outreach programs, 2022–23