Percentage of patients who arrived by ambulance for whom responsibility for their care was transferred from paramedics to Emergency Department staff in an Emergency Department treatment zone within 30 minutes.

Number of patients who arrived by ambulance for whom responsibility for their care was transferred from paramedics to Emergency Department staff in an Emergency Department treatment zone within 30 minutes.

Number of matched records with a valid transfer of care time.

Hospitals with fewer than 50 matched records in the quarter.

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.

Reported on 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.

2022-23 Service Agreement www.health.nsw.gov.au/performance/pages/frameworks.aspx www.health.nsw.gov.au/Performance/Documents/service-indicators-measures.pdf Reported on www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/activity-and-performance-profile Healthcare Quarterly www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/BHIreports/healthcarequarterly/Jan-Mar2023

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/0008/900278/BHIHQ53APR-JUN2023TECHSUPP.pdf page 18