National Benchmarking Portal
The National Benchmarking Portal (NBP) is a secure website-based application that provides access to data collected by IHACPA.
Open access to data, alongside appropriate privacy protections, enables informed policy decisions and improved patient outcomes. IHACPA has made the NBP publicly available to allow these insights to be accessed by a wide audience, including clinicians, hospital managers, researchers and the general public
Areas of focus
The benchmarking portal includes insights from data collected between 2017-18 and 2021-22. The NBP has 3 areas of focus:
- Cost per NWAU
- Hospital Acquired Complications (HACs)
- Avoidable Hospital Readmissions (AHRs)
There are 3 dashboards for each area of focus. You can explore a Cost per NWAU Overview dashboard before searching for more details via the Cost Detail and National Weighted Activity Unit (NWAU) Detail dashboards. The HAC and AHR areas of focus each provide dashboards on Trends, Activity Detail, and NWAU Adjustment Detail.
Within each dashboard you can filter data according to your chosen state or territory, local hospital network, hospital, or AIHW hospital peer group as well as other, dashboard-specific filters.
Data aggregation
All data is aggregated using common variables, including hospitals or establishments, classification end-class, care stream, and month of separation. If a user selects filters that result in a sufficiently small sample size (30 records for Cost per NWAU and 20 records for HAC and AHR areas of focus), indicators and charts are masked in order to maintain patient confidentiality and statistical robustness.
Resources
To help you navigate the portal, or access to relevant data sets, we have a range of resources, including a user guide, technical specifications and explainer videos
It is important that users of the NBP familiarise themselves with the supporting User Guide. The guide contains detailed instructions on the navigation of the dashboards and proper interpretation of the data.
The guide also explains how to use the NBP, with guidance on understanding the features, applying filters based on streams, care types and location, and developing graphs that draw meaningful results.
The Technical Specifications document details the data sources utilised within the NBP. It also includes background to the preparation undertaken in the development of the portal.
Videos
Watch a practical walk-through of the portal in the following short videos to learn how to use and interpret the data within the portal.
Further information
If you have any questions on the NBP, please email enquiries.ihacpa@ihacpa.gov.au.