Cumulative follow-ups
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Notes
- This section reflects the number of follow-up services that patients received in the 12 months following their health check, in terms of patient counts and proportions, by the year that their health check was delivered.
Some people who have health checks will not need follow-up services. If it were possible, excluding those individuals from the denominator could potentially increase the percentages markedly and reveal different variation.
Some records from a small number of service providers have been excluded due to data quality concerns.
Latest data
Among the 209,000 people who had a health check in 2021–22:
- 45% (93,900 patients) received at least one follow-up within 12 months of their health check.
- 25% (52,600 patients) received at least 2 follow‑ups.
- 16% (33,500 patients) received at least 3 follow‑ups.
- 11% (22,700 patients) received at least 4 follow‑ups.
- 7.7% (16,000 patients) received at least 5 follow‑ups.
By category of follow-up
Among the 209,000 people who had a health check in 2021–22:
- 41% (85,500 patients) received at least one follow-up from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner or Practice Nurse within 12 months of their health check (on behalf of a GP).
- 21% (44,000 patients) received at least 2 follow‑ups from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner or Practice Nurse within 12 months of their health check (on behalf of a GP).
- 10% (21,800 patients) received at least one follow-up from an eligible allied health professional within 12 months of their health check (with referral from a GP).
- 5.6% (11,600 patients) received at least 2 follow‑ups from an eligible allied health professional within 12 months of their health check (with referral from a GP).
Trends over time
Among health check patients from 2013–14 to 2021–22:
- The proportion of patients who received at least 2 follow-up services within 12 months of their health check increased gradually from 15% for 2013–14 to 27% for 2018–19 (22,200 patients to 65,500 for respective years). The proportion then dropped slightly from 2018–19 to 2021–22.
- The proportion of patients who received at least one follow-up from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner or Practice Nurse (on behalf of a GP) within 12 months increased gradually from 24% for 2013–14 to 43% for 2018–19 (14,500 patients to 103,600 for respective years). The proportion then dropped slightly from 2018–19 to 2021–22.
- The proportion of patients who received at least one follow-up from an eligible allied health professional (with referral from a GP) within 12 months has stayed around 11% since 2016–17.
Figure 22: Health check patients, by number of follow-up services in the 12 months following their health checks, by year of health check, 2013–14 to 2021–22
A set of 2 interactive graphs. Refer to table FS09 in data tables. A long description is available below.
A set of 2 interactive charts. The first is a bar graph showing the cumulative number of follow-up services within 12 months among those patients who had a health check. The second is a line graph showing cumulative numbers of follow-ups trending up between 2013–14 and 2018–19, then decreasing slightly to 2021–22. Refer to table FS09 in data tables.