Primary Health Network (PHN) comparisons
Notes
- This section reflects the number and proportion of health check patients who received a follow-up service in the 12 months following their health check, 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.
Geographic information
This analysis is based on the postcode of the patient’s given mailing address. As a result, the data may not always reflect where the person actually lived – particularly for people who use PO boxes. This is likely to impact some areas more than others and will also have a generally greater impact on the accuracy of smaller geographic areas and more remote areas.
Latest data
Among health check patients in 2022:
- Brisbane South had the highest proportion of health check patients going on to receive a follow-up within 12 months, at 64% (7,100 patients with a follow-up).
- Gippsland (Victoria) had the lowest follow-up percentage, at 14% (95 patients with a follow-up).
Figure 18: Use of follow-up services among health check patients, by Primary Health Network (PHN), by year of health check, 2018 to 2022
A set of 3 interactive charts. Refer to table FS05 in data tables. A long description is available below.
![](https://viz.aihw.gov.au:443/t/Public/views/IHW209_Indigenoushealthchecksandfollow-ups_FS-RATE-PHN_05072024/Latestdata.png?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no&:display_spinner=no&:host_url=https%3a%2f%2fviz.aihw.gov.au)
A set of 3 interactive charts. The first is a bar graph showing the proportion of health check patients who had a follow-up within 12 months of their health check, by PHN. The second is a map showing follow-up percentage, by PHN. The third is a line graph showing follow-up percentage between 2018 and 2022, by PHN. Refer to table FS05 in data tables.