Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Introduction

EMHS expenditure continues to be impacted by ongoing cost pressures from enduring COVID, cost of award increases, expenditure growth in medical and nursing salary costs and the increased use of locums and visiting medical professionals. The increased costs are a direct result of providing a safe, quality healthcare service, which has seen increasing costs related to patient complexity, bed-sit companions, increased security, and initiatives to reduce the elective surgery wait lists, increased medical, surgical and diagnostic supplies, and increased drug supply costs.

Cost pressures in 2023-24 from WA Government Wages Policy, cost of living pressures and the introduction of safer services initiatives for patients has also resulted in increased expenditure levels for EMHS.

KPIs