NATIONAL and statelevel hospital data shows rising numbers of presentations to Australia's public hospital emergency departments (EDs) according to an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Emergency department care 2015-16: Australian hospital statistics.
In 2015-16, there were 7.5 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments across Australia (excluding the Australian Capital Territory), or more than 20,000 presentations each day.
Between 2011-12 and 2015-16, after adjusting for the number of hospitals included, presentations to emergency departments increased by 2.7% each year on average,' said AIHW spokesperson Jenny Hargreaves.
The very young (under four years of age) and elderly (65 years and over) were disproportionally highly represented in presentations.
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