About this item

Issue date:
18 December 2021
Status:
Current
Corporate Author:
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora,
Document date:
15 December 2021
Type:
Report,
Topic:
Hospitals and specialist care,
Location:
Auckland (East and South),
Copyright status:

Copyright Held by Non-Crown Party

ISBN:
978-0-9876500-9-2

Key points:

  • The total number of hospitalisation in Counties Manukau (CM) Health increased on average by 1.2% per year between 2010 to 2019. However, the proportion of ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations (ASH) of total hospitalisations decreased over this period from 28% to 25%.
  • The number of ASH have remained steady over the last ten years but decreasing trends for age-standardised rates show good improvements.
  • Overall, the rate of ASH by ethnicity is trending downwards for all ethnicities. Specifically, Pacific population has the highest rate of ASH, followed by Maaori. Important disparities between Pacific, Maaori and European/Other and Asian are evident with Maaori and Pacific experiencing 49% and 55% excess ASH compared to European/Other in 2020, respectively.
  • Most of the respiratory conditions are trending downwards, worryingly, the rates for stroke, congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease and hypertensive disease are on the rise.
  • European/Other ethnic groups recorded the highest number of ICD classified total hospitalisations in CM Health. However, the age-standardised rates show similar disparities as ASH with Pacific leading the rates of ICD classified total hospitalisations, closely followed by Maaori and significantly higher than European/Other and Asian rates