8570.0 - Health Care Services, 2009-10

Quality Declaration

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$43 Billion generated by health care businesses (Media Release)

Contents >> General practice medical services >> Patients

PATIENTS

The graph below shows that during the 2009-10 financial year general practice medical businesses had 4.5m total patient contacts in an average working week. Female patients accounted for 53.4% of this total. General practitioners had an average of 124 patient contacts per working week.

General practitioner patient contacts by patient gender and age(a)
Graph: General practitioner patient contacts by patient gender and age(a)