Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
- Contract value (all years): no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
- APS headcount: 159
- Budget 2026-27: 36,095 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 543,350 AUD
- Directory roles: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Passing mentions (9 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2025-10-30 — Movers & Shakers: International drug body elects TGA boss
- 2024-04-02 — Clinical trials sector in good health with room to improve
- 2021-09-16 — Movers & shakers: DFAT’s bumper promotions, Health welcomes new assistant secretaries
- 2021-09-14 — Health experts picked to lead Medicare review
- 2021-04-20 — New national standard to reduce risk of injury during childbirth
- 2018-08-10 — Movers & shakers: Home Affairs, Indigenous Affairs, Industry portfolios and more
- 2016-07-13 — Chief medical officer retirement sparks Department of Health reshuffle
- 2015-11-27 — Mapping healthcare variation across the country
Names over time
What each source called this agency, and in which years. Taken from the sources themselves, not from a register of establishment dates — those are not published.
| Reported as | Source | Years | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACSQHC ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2011-12 to 2016-17 | 867 |
| ACSQHC ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2011-12 to 2016-17 | 39 |
| Australian Commission on Safety And Quality in Health Care ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2017-18 | 2 |
| Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | APSC APS Employment Data | 2017-18 to 2025-26 | 1,289 |
| Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | APSC agency metrics | 2017-18 to 2025-26 | 193 |
| Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 109 |
| Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | Annual report governance tables | 2022-23 to 2024-25 | 12 |
| Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 40 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as ACSQHC (2011-12 to 2016-17); Australian Commission on Safety And Quality in Health Care (2017-18 to 2017-18). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 38.6% | at this date |
| % Female | 76.7% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.9% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 29.6% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 22.6% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 9.8% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 76.4% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 94.7% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 2.5% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 15.3% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 159 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 42.6 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 2.4 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 11.0% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 55 | 76 | 91 | 103 | 103 | 90 | 87 | 93 | 93 | 88 | 100 | 135 | 149 | 159 | |
| Budget ($000) | 32,738 | 36,095 | |||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 12 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 28 | 14 | ||||||||
| Top total pay | $474,632 | $489,911 | $488,404 | $484,755 | $90,541 | $520,273 | $543,350 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. ⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as ACSQHC (2011-12 to 2016-17); Australian Commission on Safety And Quality in Health Care (2017-18 to 2017-18). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
