Links to government goals and outcomes
To comply with legislative obligations as a WA Government agency, EMHS operates under the Outcome Based Management (OBM) framework determined by the Department of Health. This framework describes how outcomes, activities, services and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used to measure performance against State Government priorities and desired outcomes, and is underpinned by the principles of:
- transparency of reporting performance against targets
- accountability for achieving targets
- consistency and integration of systems and policies to support the achievement of targets
- recognition and acknowledgement of performance against targets.
EMHS reports performance against KPIs for:
Outcome one: Public hospital-based services that enable effective treatment and restorative health care for Western Australians.
Outcome two: Prevention, health promotion and aged and continuing care services that help Western Australians to live healthy and safe lives.
Effectiveness KPIs
- Unplanned hospital readmissions for patients within 28 days for selected surgical procedures (per 1,000 separations)
- Percentage of elective wait list patients waiting over boundary for reportable procedures
- Healthcare-associated staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (HA-SABSI) per 10,000 occupied bed-days
- Survival rates for sentinel conditions
- Percentage of admitted patients who discharged against medical advice
- Percentage of live-born term infants with an Apgar score of less than 7 at 5 minutes post delivery
- Readmissions to acute specialised mental health inpatient services within 28 days of discharge
- Percentage of post discharge community care within 7 days following discharge from acute specialised mental health inpatient services
Efficiency KPIs
- Service 1: Public hospital admitted services
Average admitted cost per weighted activity unit - Service 2: Public hospital emergency services
Average Emergency Department (ED) cost per weighted activity unit - Service 3: Public hospital non-admitted services
Average non-admitted cost per weighted activity unit - Service 4: Mental health services
Average cost per bed-day in specialised mental health inpatient services
Average cost per treatment day of non-admitted care provided by mental health services
Efficiency KPIs
- Service 6: Public and community health services
Average cost per person of delivering population health programs by population health units