Reporting of safety and quality
WA Health is dedicated to providing high-quality healthcare to Western Australians.
We collect and publish a range of data to inform the community how we are doing against standards set for clinical care, so that we can continuously improve our treatment and services.
We recognise the importance of addressing the health needs of Aboriginal people. The data presented here represents all Western Australians who have been inpatients in our public hospitals, irrespective of indigenous, ethnic, cultural background. You can find comprehensive data focusing exclusively on Aboriginal health here.
About our data
Our data includes information on public patients from all cultures, backgrounds, ages and genders, who use Western Australia’s public hospitals and health services. This includes patients in hospitals and people outside hospital walls.
For inpatient clinical incidents, to ensure the information is meaningful, you can view the data as numbers or as a rate. Where a rate has been used, we have used standardised tools called ‘patient days’ or ‘bed days’.
Most of our rates are presented as ‘patient days’. Patient days are calculated as the total number of days that a patient was in the hospital until they were discharged.
More information
If this data is of interest to you or questions arise, please contact us by emailing PSCQ.CED@health.wa.gov.au
Last reviewed: 02-10-2026