Median and 90th percentile transfer of care time from ambulance to Emergency Department.

The time between arrival of patients at the Emergency Department by ambulance and transfer of responsibility for their care from paramedics to Emergency Department staff in an Emergency Department treatment zone for half and 90% of the patients.

This is a continuous variable measure. The target population is people transferred from ambulance to Emergency Department (inferred).

Hospitals with fewer than 50 matched records in the quarter. Caution is advised when interpreting performance results for hospitals where transfer of care could not be calculated for more than 30% of total records because records were not matched or transfer of care time was missing.

Transfer of Care Reporting System portal, which incorporates data drawn from the NSW Ambulance information system and from the Emergency Department Data Collection (EDDC) extracted from the centralised data warehouse, the Health Information Exchange. Transfer of care is reported for hospitals where the ambulance incident number and the date can be identified in both the NSW Ambulance data and the EDDC.

Bureau of Health Information website: Healthcare Quarterly. This is a tier 1 KPI in the service agreements between the Ministry of Health and all local health districts and specialty health networks.

Healthcare Quarterly: www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/BHIreports/healthcarequarterly/Jan-Mar2024 www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/activity-and-performance-profile

Bureau of Health Information. Technical Supplement to Healthcare Quarterly, January to March 2023. Sydney (NSW): BHI; 2023 www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdffile/0011/888140/BHIHQ52JAN-MAR2023TECHSUPP.pdf page 18