High quality health services

Delivering ‘high quality health services’ is crucial to our public and economic health. With an ageing population, an ever-increasing share of our GDP spent on service delivery, a large and diverse workforce and opportunities for innovation that could have a global impact – understanding and monitoring views on health is critical to local and national prosperity. The provision of ‘high quality health services’ is always among the top attributes that Australians believe make somewhere a good place to live, and is often more important to older Australians. Read more about .id's views on the importance of 'high quality health services' here.

High quality health services in Ipswich

Greater Importance & Better Experiences

42% of residents selected ‘High quality health services’ as an important attribute when considering what makes somewhere a good place to live, making it the 4th most important liveability aspect for Ipswich residents overall. Residents rated their experience of ‘High quality health services’ in their local area 5.4 out of 10, on average, making it the 7th most positively experienced attribute of 16. In comparison to Australia: 2023, residents of Ipswich placed less importance on High quality health services and reported worse local area experiences.

Benchmarks

Importance
Experience
Ipswich
42%
5.4
May 2022
39%
5.6
Australia: 2023
45%
6.2
Metropolitan Australia: 2023
42%
6.5
Queensland: 2023
46%
6.2
South East Queensland: 2023
45%
6.6

Local areas

Importance
Experience
Ipswich
42%
5.4
Division 1 (n = 239)
41%
5.2
Division 2 (n = 258)
41%
5.5
Division 3 (n = 386)
44%
5.6
Division 4 (n = 319)
40%
5.4

Gender

Importance
Experience
Ipswich
42%
5.4
Male (n = 337)
37%
5.4
Female (n = 845)
43%
5.5

Age

Importance
Experience
Ipswich
42%
5.4
18 - 34 (n = 160)
36%
4.8
35 - 59 (n = 531)
39%
5.5
60 + (n = 469)
58%
6.2

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