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Table 12A.60
Table 12A.60
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Unit cost (dollars per treated patient in the
community)
2 143.46 1 624.87 2 907.89 2 421.64 2 554.36
Percent of services not reporting 11.8 16.7 16.7 23.1 –
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Average cost to government (recurrent) per treated patient in the
community ACT (2006-07 dollars) (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h)
Expenditure covered by non reporting services
(per cent)
3.1 0.3 0.6 2.9 –
The above data and derived indicators have significant data quality problems and are presented for
demonstration purposes only, which is aimed at improving the quality of information reported in future
years. The data and indicators are not of sufficient quality to be used for any form of comparative
analysis of the performance of State and Territory jurisdictions. Future work will focus on improving data
on service outputs and outcomes to support a range of analyses.
The absence of unique patient identifiers in many jurisdictions means that clients who happen to attend
mental health services other than their usual service may be counted twice. This double counting may
artificially reduce average costs in some states or territories. Victoria, WA, the ACT and the NT have
statewide systems of unique identifiers, so the extent of overcounting of patients in these states is
relatively lower than in other jurisdictions. Differences across jurisdictions in the complexity of cases
treated, the service options available for treatment and admission practices also reduce comparability of
data between states and territories. In addition, cost components such as depreciation are not
measured consistently across jurisdictions.
Depreciation is excluded as it is variably handled by jurisdictions.
Unit costs not casemix adjusted.
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).
(f) See the National Mental Health Report 2007 for a full description of data sources and analysis.
(g) Calculation of average unit costs excludes those services with missing patient data.
(h) Data on the total number of treated patients in the community for 2002-03 and 2004-05 have been
revised.
– Nil or rounded to zero.
Source : ACT Government (unpublished); AIHW (unpublished), derived from the MHE NMDS .
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