This is a machine-readable version of the non-financial performance reporting dataset from the Department of Health 2023-24 Annual Report.
It includes the following tables:
- Performance reporting - non-financial - performance measures
- Summary of Output performance Measures Results table
Objective indicators
Each departmental objective requires a set of indicators to monitor progress and demonstrate achievement of that objective. Trends in objective indicators help to demonstrate that the department’s outputs are contributing to long-term government objectives.
The department’s objective indicators and output performance measures are set out in the 2023–24 State Budget Paper No. 3 – Service delivery, and the four-year results against these are presented in the table at Appendix 6.3.
Output Performance measures
Output performance measures specify a department’s expected service delivery performance each year. Performance measures are the building blocks of the accountability system that drives continuous improvement and are the basis for the certification of departmental revenue.
The measures allow meaningful comparison and benchmarking within the portfolio and provide transparency to the Victorian Parliament and the public.
In 2023–24, the department had 177 output performance measures, divided into Quantity, Quality and Timeliness categories. The majority of these measures (126) achieved target.
The health system continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and, although a number of measures did not meet target, there was an improvement against the previous year. Examples include the number of emergency separations, the number of sub-acute care separations, and waiting times for non-urgent and semi-urgent elective surgeries and wait times for ambulance services, which all improved in 2023–24 compared to the previous year.
For more detail on this section of the report as a whole, start at page 12 of the 2023-24 Annual Report. https://www.health.vic.gov.au/department-of-health-annual-report