Tool № 19 · Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations

NSW state-level PPH rate: 2219/100k

AIHW publishes Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations 2023-24 at state-aggregated PHN level — every PHN within a given state reports the same age-standardised rate. Northern Sydney's catchment (931,439 people, ABS ERP 2024) sits at the NSW state rate of 2219/100k. Applied to the catchment population, that's approximately 20,669 PPH admissions per year.

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NSW state PPH rate
2219/100k ASR
AIHW 2023-24 · state-aggregated per PHN
Admissions / yr (catchment)
20,669
2219/100k × 931,439 population
National reference rate
2650/100k
AIHW 2023-24 national
Chronic share
38%
7,880 chronic-PPH / yr
Data vintage AIHW PPH2023-24 ABS ERP2024
§ 01 · 3 PPH categories

Where the preventable burden sits.

AIHW splits PPH into three categories. Rates shown are the NSW state-aggregated values from the AIHW 2023-24 release; admission counts apply the rate to Northern Sydney's 2024 ERP population.

AIHW · NHMD 2023-24
per 100k age-standardised
Total PPH (combined)
2219 20,669 admissions / yr at state rate
NSW state rate 2219 National 2650

Total preventable hospital admissions per 100,000 age-standardised population.

per 100k age-standardised
Acute
1152 10,730 admissions / yr at state rate
NSW state rate 1152 National 1218
Ties to: Tool 14 (After-Hours + UCC)

Acute conditions amenable to timely primary care (cellulitis, UTI, dental, dehydration, ENT, gastroenteritis).

per 100k age-standardised
Chronic
846 7,880 admissions / yr at state rate
NSW state rate 846 National 1140
Ties to: Tool 15 (Chronic Disease & PIP-QI)

Chronic conditions amenable to ongoing primary care (diabetes complications, COPD, CHF, asthma, angina).

per 100k age-standardised
Vaccine-preventable
250 2,329 admissions / yr at state rate
NSW state rate 250 National 292
Ties to: Tool 17 (Immunisation Coverage)

Conditions preventable by NIP-schedule vaccination (influenza, pneumococcal, pertussis, measles, hepatitis B, rotavirus).

Data quality · what's real, what's not yet available

PPH is a core PHN Program Performance & Quality + AIHW indicator. AIHW publishes the rate state-aggregated per PHN — every PHN in NSW reports the same rate. True per-PHN or per-LGA PPH variation requires record-level NHMD extraction with PHN/LGA attribution (Domato internal-data tier). The portal does not synthesise per-PHN rates beyond what AIHW publishes.

Methodology · sources

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