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Rural Hospital Adult Admitted Patient Survey

This survey asks people who have been admitted to a small, rural public hospital in NSW to share their experiences of care. The Rural Hospital Adult Admitted Patient Survey was previously known as the Small and Rural Hospitals Survey.

See below for results in the main report and supplementary data tables, and explore earlier reports in the series.

The survey ran in 2016 and 2019–20.


Selected results

Jul 2019 – Jun 2020 NSW

Report products

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Results from the 2019–20 patient survey

The latest key findings, including variation between hospitals.

Released: 9 June 2021

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Supplementary data tables

Hospital-level results for all performance questions.

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Technical Supplement

Detailed information about the sampling methodology, data management and analysis related to the latest survey results.

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Hospital performance

See an overview of local hospital and district performance before exploring more detailed results in the Data Portal

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Data Portal

Find and compare detailed results showing activity and performance for the NSW healthcare system, including trends over time

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Patients provide high ratings of care in small, rural NSW hospitals

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Questionnaire

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Sample questionnaire, 2019–20

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Development report, 2019–20

Summarises changes to the latest survey and includes information about stakeholder consultation and engagement, and sampling methodology.

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To see current questionnaires in the field, click here

Other results

Adults admitted to rural hospitals – the 2016 survey

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The Insights Series – Healthcare in rural, regional and remote NSW

This report assesses healthcare services provided to patients in urban and rural areas of NSW. It does so using some 100 measures based on information including hospital records, ED datasets and patient survey results.

Released: 10 November 2016

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