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Table 12A.51
Table 12A.51
(a)
Average recurrent costs per inpatient bed day, public hospitals, by target population (2006-07 dollars) (a),
(b), (c)
NSW Vic Qld (d) WA (e) SA Tas (f), (g) ACT (f), (h) NT (f), (i) Aust
Constant price expenditure expressed in 2006-07 prices, using the State and Territory implicit price deflators for general government final consumption
expenditure on hospital clinical services (table 12A.69).
(b) Depreciation is excluded for all years.
(c) See the National Mental Health Report 2007 for a full description of the derivation of expenditure estimates.
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
Queensland has advised that it provides older persons' mental health services inpatient services using a number of different service models including
campus and noncampus based options. All service types are reported as older persons' mental health services which may have the effect of lowering the
average patient day costs compared to jurisdictions who report ‘older persons' care units’ separately. Queensland has also advised that the high bed day cost
of forensic mental health service beds in 2002-03 was due to inflated bed day costs associated with a new 21 bed forensic service that was set up in
Townsville.
WA expenditure data for general mental health services for 2002-03 and 2004-05 have been revised.
Child and adolescent mental health services were not available, or could not be separately identified, in Tasmania, the ACT and the NT. Older Persons’
Mental Health Services programs were not available, or could not be separately identified, in Tasmania and the ACT for some years, and the NT. Tasmanian
figures include child and adolescent mental health services within the general mental health services category. Forensic mental health services were not
available in the ACT.
The following changes occurred in 2005-06 for Tasmanian that impact on these data: NGO residential services were included for the first time and one
service unit was re-classified from an older persons unit to an adult residential service.
(h)
ACT average costs for older person's mental health services are based on a new 20 bed unit opened in March 2007. During 2006-07, only 6–10 beds
operated due to issues related to staffing resources. This has artificially inflated the average cost of older persons' mental health services.
(i)
NT expenditure data for general mental health services for 2002-03 and 2004-05 have been revised.
.. Not applicable.
Source : AIHW (unpublished), derived from the MHE NMDS ; State and Territory governments (unpublished).
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