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Marrickville Local Government Area Health ProfileFigure 17: Selected primary care services per 1,000 persons, vs Inner West Sydney and state comparators,2010Source: Public Health Information Development Unit and Department of Health and Ageing (2012)5.2 EMERGENCYTable 14 provides analysis of 2011-12 Emergency Department (ED) data across all three publichospitals within Inner West Sydney, and shows that residents of the Marrickville LGA made17,304 visits to EDs within the catchment area, which represents 12.5% of all ED visits tohospitals within Inner West Sydney catchment area overall, and 17.2% of ED visits for allpersons living within Inner West Sydney catchment area.Table 14 shows that Marrickville residents presented most often to the Royal Prince AlfredHospital when seeking emergency services (90.3%). Services provided to Marrickville residentscomprised 23.1% of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital’s total ED caseload in 2011-12.Table 14: Emergency department presentations by hospital, 2011-12Canterbury Concord Royal PrinceHospital Hospital Alfred HospitalTotalPresentations from Marrickville LGA 1,378 (7.9%) 306 (1.8%) 15,620 (90.3%) 17,304 (100%)ED presentations for all persons (within and outside Inner West Sydney Medicare Local)Total ED presentations for hospital(all persons)35,998 (26.0%) 34,629 (25.1%) 67,586 (48.9%) 138,213 (100%)Marrickville % of Total 3.8% 0.9% 23.1% 12.5%Source: Statewide Emergency DataData relating to patient triage classification per 1,000 persons is provided in Table 15. Table 15shows that on a per-capita basis, Marrickville residents present to emergency departments for alltriage classifications much more often than across the broader catchment.Within the overall Inner West Sydney catchment area, Marrickville has the highest crudeincidence of ‘emergency’ and ‘non-urgent’ ED presentations per-capita; the second most numberof ‘resuscitation’ and ‘urgent’ presentations per-capita; and the fourth-highest number of ‘semiurgent’ED presentations per-capita. The results for ‘emergency’ and ‘non-urgent’ triageclassifications, are 41% and 80% higher respectively, than across the overall catchment.Inner West Sydney Medicare Local and Sydney Local Health District Page 25Marrickville Local Government AreaPopulation Health LGA/SLA Profile v1.1 March 2013