Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Body section
  • Introduction
    • This report
  • The Medical Indemnity National Collection
    • MINC (public sector)
    • MINC (private sector)
    • Claim management practices
    • Data items and definitions
    • Policy, administrative and legal context
    • Reporting claim characteristics
    • Health sector contextual information
  • Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2010-11
    • New claims
    • Current claims
    • Closed claims
  • Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2006-07 to2010-11
    • Claim numbers
    • New claims: clinical service context and primary incident/allegation type
    • New claims: principal clinician specialty
    • New claims: primary body function/structure affected
    • Current claims: reserve range and duration
    • Closed claims: cost and duration
    • Closed claims: mode of claim finalisation
    • Closed claims: extent of harm
    • Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on the year their reserve was set
    • Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on year of incident
  • Public and private sector medical indemnity claims for 2010-11
    • New claims: health service setting
    • New claims: primary incident/allegation type
    • New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/allegation type
    • New claims: sex and age group of claim subjects and primary incident/allegation type
    • New claims: primary body function/structure affected
    • Current claims: duration and reserve range
    • Closed claims: duration and total claim size
    • Closed claims: total claim size and mode of finalisation
    • Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
    • Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
    • Closed claims: total claim size and extent of harm
  • Public and private sector medical indemnity claims, 2007-08 to 2010-11
    • Claim numbers
    • New claims: health service setting and primary incident/allegation type
    • New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/ allegation type
    • New claims: sex and age group of claim subjects and primary incident/allegation type
    • New claims: primary body function/structure affected
    • Current claims: reserve range and duration
    • Closed claims: total claim size and duration
    • Closed claims: total claim size and mode of finalisation
    • Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
    • Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
    • Closed claims: total claim size and extent of harm
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: MINC data items and key terms
      • Appendix B: Data quality
        • Medical Indemnity National Collection(Public Sector) data quality statement
        • Medical Indemnity National Collection(Private Sector) data quality statement
        • Statistics on data coverage, completeness and quality
      • Appendix C: Public and private sector claim management practices
        • Private sector
      • Appendix D: Changes to jurisdiction, policy, administrative and legal features
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix E: Health sector contextual information
        • Health workforce
        • Hospital services
      • Appendix F: Claim cohort analysis dat
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
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