Use of emergency departments for lower urgency care

This web report is an update to the report Use of emergency departments for lower urgency care: 2015–16 to 2018–19 and provides counts and rates of presentations to hospital emergency departments (ED) for lower urgency care by Statistical Area Level 3 and Primary Health Network, for 2020–21 and 2021–22. Reasons people present to the ED rather than a General Practitioner are also explored.