Progress of the 2007-08 Annual Survey of Divisions (ASD)

The Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (PHC RIS) conducts the Annual Survey of Divisions (ASD) on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. As part of their contractual obligations, all Divisions of General Practice are required to complete the Survey which includes questions about their membership, activities (including population health) and infrastructure for the previous financial year. Consequently, the results provide a comprehensive overview of Divisions and summarise the broad range of activities that they are involved in.

Progress to date

• Deadline for the submission of the 2007-08 ASD was 30 September 2008
  • The final ASD was submitted on 14 October 2008
• All data was collated and checked for outliers and anomalies by PHC RIS by 21 October 2008
  • Divisions were contacted to clarify or correct their responses for inclusion in their tailored feedback reports
• Draft tailored feedback reports were prepared and sent to all Divisions on 19 November 2008
  • Divisions were asked to check their responses and to inform PHC RIS of any corrections by 5 December 2008
  • Final edits were received from Divisions on 3 February 2009
  • Final feedback was generated and sent on 2 March 2009 after updating with newly available population data
• Generate and send tailored feedback reports to other members of the Divisions Network and Rural Workforce Agencies (RWAs).
• Tailored feedback sent to state based organizations (SBOs) on 17 March 2009
• Tailored feedback sent to Australian General Practice Network on 15 April 2009
• Summary data report prepared and sent to the Department 26 March 2009

Next steps

• Awaiting Ministerial release for Summary data report
• Tailored feedback for RWAs currently in editing