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National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators, 2001

By the National Health Performance Committee

This fifth National Report on Health Sector Performance Indicators has been prepared by the National Health Performance Committee (NHPC). It follows on from earlier reports authored originally by the National Health Ministers' Benchmarking Working Group, the NHPC's predecessor, and later by the NHPC.

Previous reports on 'performance' have focused on health and health service indicators, with many of the indicators relating to institutional care and acute care settings. As part of its Terms of Reference, the NHPC agreed to develop a broad national health performance framework that could be used as the basis for its annual report to Ministers. Results of this work were reflected in the publication in August 2001 of the National Health Performance Framework Report, which outlined the new framework.

This 2001 Report is the first report to Ministers on health sector performance based on the new framework. It is a significant milestone as it includes not only indicators relating to health sector performance but also health status and health determinants.