Welcome to the new BHI website. During its staged implementation, earlier reports not available on this site can be accessed on the old website.

Virtual care in NSW: Use and patients’ experiences

2020–2023

This Healthcare in Focus report provides insights into patients’ use and experiences of virtual care in NSW. It illustrates patterns of virtual care use in recent years and shows how, with what services and in what contexts patients used this model of care between 2020 and 2023.

Released: 08 May 2024

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Patients’ experiences of virtual outpatient care in 2023

Aug–Sep 2023

These survey results reflect the experiences of 2,301 patients who had at least one virtual care appointment with a public hospital outpatient clinic in NSW in August or September 2023.

Released: 08 May 2024

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Emergency Department Patient Survey

2022–23

These survey results reflect the experiences of almost 22,000 patients who attended one of 77 large emergency departments in NSW from July 2022 to June 2023.

Released: 13 March 2024

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Rural Hospital Emergency Care Patient Survey

Jan–Mar 2023

These results reflect the experiences of more than 5,000 patients who received emergency care from one of 81 small rural public hospitals between January and March 2023.

Released: 6 December 2023

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Hospital care experiences for people who mainly speak a language other than English

2017–2022

This in-depth report examines the experiences in NSW public hospitals of more than 22,000 patients who mainly speak a language other than English at home.

Released: 25 October 2023

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Patients’ experiences of elective surgery care

Aug–Oct 2022

To gain insights into patients’ experiences of elective, or planned, surgery care, BHI introduced a module into the Adult Admitted Patient Survey for people who had elective surgery in one of 63 NSW public hospitals between August and October 2022. This short-form report highlights key NSW-level insights from BHI’s analyses of the experiences of 1,157 patients who responded.

Released: 25 October 2023

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Outpatient Cancer Clinics Survey

Jan 2023

These results reflect the experiences of more than 8,200 patients who attended one of 43 NSW facilities housing outpatient cancer clinics in January 2023.

Released: 25 October 2023

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Adult Admitted Patient Survey

2022

These survey results reflect the experiences of almost 20,000 patients admitted to one of 87 NSW public hospitals in 2022.

Released: 6 September 2023

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Patients’ experiences of ambulance services

Jul–Sep 2022

BHI introduced a module into the Emergency Department Patient Survey for people who arrived by ambulance to large NSW emergency departments between July and September 2022. This short-form Insights report highlights key actionable insights from BHI’s analyses of the experiences of 1,230 patients who responded.

Released: 7 June 2023

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Aboriginal patient experience

2014–2019

This Insights report reflects the experiences of care of more than 8,000 Aboriginal people who were admitted to a NSW public hospital from 2014 to 2019, and the experiences of almost 300 Aboriginal women who gave birth in a NSW public hospital in 2019. It draws on the results of the Adult Admitted Patient Survey and Maternity Care Survey.

Released: 21 July 2021

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Rural Hospital Adult Admitted Patient Survey

2019–20

These survey results reflect the experiences of almost 4,500 adult patients who were admitted to one of 98 small, rural public hospitals in NSW from July 2019 to June 2020.

Released: 9 June 2021

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Maternity Care Survey

2019

These survey results reflect the experiences of almost 4,500 women who gave birth in one of 68 NSW public hospitals in 2019.

Released: 9 December 2020

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People’s experiences of hospital care

2014–2019

This Healthcare in Focus report examines the experiences of care of more than 200,000 people who visited emergency departments or were admitted to public hospitals over a five-year period.

Released: 22 July 2020

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Admitted Children and Young Patients Survey

2018

These survey results reflect the experiences of more than 3,000 children and young people who were admitted in 2018 to one of three public specialist paediatric hospitals in NSW.

Released: 11 December 2019

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Prior to BHI taking responsibility in 2012, the NSW Patient Survey Program was managed by the NSW Ministry of Health. See reports published from 2007 to 2011 here.