National health data, made local — for every Australian community.
We take the national datasets clinicians already trust — the ABS, AIHW, PBS and national immunisation records — and turn them into a clear picture of the treatment and immunisation gaps in each community, so care can reach the patients who are being missed. Every title is built fresh for each one of Australia's 546 local government areas.
a distinct edition each
ABS / AIHW / PBS data
reached nationally
Three titles, one method
Every title is editioned individually for each local government area — a different edition for every community, with that community's own data inside. Local numbers land, and get acted on, in a way a national average never does.
Pulse Primary Care
Twelve chronic conditions GPs manage every day — diabetes, COPD, osteoporosis, atopic dermatitis and more — with local prevalence and treatment-gap data recalculated for every LGA against the national baseline.
Pulse Vaccines
The National Immunisation Program schedule plus adult and travel vaccination — local coverage rates, catch-up gaps and program updates, localised the same way as Primary Care: one edition per LGA, per quarter.
Pulse Metabolic In development
A dedicated title on metabolic health — type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiometabolic risk — extending the same sourced, per-LGA approach to the conditions driving the biggest share of preventable disease. In development now.
Why local data matters
The gap is local — and hidden
Treatment and immunisation gaps vary enormously between communities; a national average hides them. Every spread quantifies the under-diagnosed and under-treated patients in that specific catchment.
Sourced, not estimated
Every figure traces to ABS, AIHW or PBS data, with the method published — no proprietary black box, so a clinician can trust and check what they're reading.
Three titles, one standard
Pulse Primary Care and Pulse Vaccines are live today — both quarterly, both editioned per LGA, both built from the same sourced national datasets. Pulse Metabolic, a third title, is in development.
Independent by design
Editorial disease pages are never for sale. Any advertising is clearly labelled and kept separate from the data and its sourcing — see our about & compliance page.
About Australian Healthcare Research
We're an independent research publisher. Our aim is simple: put population-level health evidence into the hands of the clinicians who act on it, so more Australians receive the care they need. Pulse is how we do it — the same national datasets every GP already trusts, made local, and delivered to the practice.
Health service or PHN interested in sharing Pulse with your GPs? Contact us — we'd love to talk.