About the Hospital Health Check survey

In 2020, 1332 doctors-in-training completed the Hospital Health Check survey.

Because many doctors-in-training rotate through multiple hospitals and health services, all participants were asked to answer questions based on one hospital in which they had worked the most in the last 12 months.

The data gathered from the survey was used to provide hospitals with grades in five different domains and to calculate an overall rating for each facility. The five domains measured are:

  1. Overtime & rostering
  2. Access to leave
  3. Wellbeing
  4. Education & training
  5. Morale & culture

Not an AMA (NSW) member?

Want to ensure you hear about the follow-up work we do with LHDs and hospital executives in response to the survey results? Join AMA (NSW) as a doctor-in-training member and we’ll let you know.

The survey is built by members to monitor and campaign on issues important to them. If you join and take part in the doctors-in-training committee, you will have the opportunity to shape the future advocacy of AMA (NSW).

Completing the survey is just one part of the Hospital Health Check – it is an advocacy tool that encompasses campaigning and follow-up and to get the most out of it, you need to be a member.

Summary Information

Download a four page summary of the 2020 Hospital Health Check here.

Individual Hospital Results

For individual reports on each hospital, please see the table below.

Clicking on the hospital names on the left will take you to a more detailed report for each one.

Reading the Results

Each rating represents a score out of 100.

75.1 – 100
62.6 – 75.0
50.1 – 62.5
37.6 – 50.0
0 – 37.5

Local Health District Results

The Hospital Health Check also applied the same grading system to Local Health Districts.

Reading the Results

Each rating represents a score out of 100.

75.1 – 100
62.6 – 75.0
50.1 – 62.5
37.6 – 50.0
0 – 37.5

Detailed Information For NSW Overall

The graphs below are divided into demographic information and the five domains measured in the Hospital Health Check.

To navigate around each section, please either use the arrow buttons at the centre, below each graph, or click on the numbers between the arrows to bring up a menu you can use to go to a graph of your choice.

At the NSW level, most of the domain questions can be filtered by the gender of the respondents. Clicking on the word “female” or “male” in the top right corner will show you how women and men, respectively, answered the question you are viewing. This feature is disabled when viewing an individual hospital’s results to preserve the anonymity of survey respondents.

Clicking on the white space around a graph will cause the focus icon () to be shown. Clicking on the focus icon will enlarge the view of the graph.

This can be used in conjunction with the show at full screen icon at the bottom right of each graph to get a better full screen display of graphs that have multiple answers.

You can also use the share icon (to the immediate left of the view at full screen icon) to share the results for your hospital on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or via email.

These graphs are best viewed in Firefox on a desktop computer.