Page 677 - Week 02 - Thursday, 18 February 2016

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(2) What is the annual administrative oncost used to budget for the provision of each bed or space for parts (1) (a) to (h).

(3) What was the total bed count in ACT Health at the end of (a) 2013-2014 and (b) 2014-2015.

(4) How many new beds were funded in ACT Health in 2014-2015 and delivered in 2014-2015.

(5) How many new beds were funded in ACT Health in previous years and delivered in 2014-2015.

(6) How many new beds were funded in 2014-2015 and were not delivered in 2014 2015.

(7) What was the nature of the bed categories/types in parts (2) to (4).

Mr Corbell: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) The annual costs of part one is not obtainable as an annual operating cost. This is due to the nature of the Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards Version 3.1, which requires costs to be aggregated on a per episode basis.

Equally, it is not possible to separate the costs of (b) an operating theatre room/bed/space, (e) intensive care bed or (g) a hospital in the home bed, as these costs are available as an aggregation within the acute care costs.

The average ACT direct operating cost as per the National Hospital Cost Data Collection Round 18 for the 2013-14 financial year, were as follows:

(a) palliative care episode was $11,942;

(d) acute care episode was $4,359; and

(f) emergency episode was $624.

The Medihotel (h) was not included in the National Hospital Cost Data Collection and therefore cannot be reported.

(2) ‘Administrative costs’ are not available as an identifiable subset of an overall cost of a bed. However, on a per episode basis, the average ACT indirect costs, as defined by the Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards Version 3.1, as per the National Hospital Cost Data Collection Round 18 for the 2013-14 financial year were as follows:

(a) palliative care episode was $8,550;

(d) acute care episode was $1,940; and

(f) Emergency Department (ED) episode was $240.

(3) The total number of beds in ACT Health at the end of:

(a) 2013-14 – 1,030 were funded; and 1014 were fully operational; and

(b) 2014-15 – 1,068 were funded and fully operational.

(4) The number of new beds that were funded in 2014-15 and were delivered in 2014-15 was 38.

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