The entities in Queensland's health sector work together to provide a range of healthcare services to Queenslanders and support the wellbeing of Queensland communities.

Each year, we analyse the health entities’ financial performance and position and include assessments of their internal controls, financial performance and sustainability, and asset management.

In our yearly health reports, we will provide insights into how the health system is responding to increased health service demand, driven by an increasing and ageing population, a shortage of general practitioners, and changing health needs. This includes analysis of demand pressures on:

• ambulance and emergency department services, and the impact of satellite health centres on emergency department presentations 
• specialist outpatients – wait lists and the percentage of patients seen within clinically recommended times.

Each year our report will build on focus areas from our previous health reports. This year, we will focus on the following:

• Management of payroll overpayments, rostering, and overtime
• Risk management maturity of hospital and health services
• Ageing of health infrastructure assets, progress and spend on the hospital capital expansion program, and progress made on our previous recommendations on addressing maintenance that has been deferred.

Other areas we may analyse further this year include:

• efficiency of services delivered by hospital and health services
• environmental impacts of health entities, including how they manage energy efficiency
• governance of hospital and health boards, including how they manage conflicts of interest.