Page 4502 - Week 12 - Thursday, 24 October 2019
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of obtaining a national criminal background check, undertaking an assessment of the application, and issuing the registration.
Initial funding in 2019-20 is paying for the system build that will establish the licencing system and contain a register of information relating to registrations and events. The maintenance of this system is also costed in the out years. Any expenses above the revenue forecast will be funded within existing resources.
The peak in revenue forecast for 2022-23 is based on the cycle for official and contestant registrations. Registrations are valid for a period of three years, and therefore we expect there will be a surge of renewals three years after the scheme has commenced. These figures are based on an estimated number of registrations, which will become clearer once the scheme commences.
Hospitals—aged-care beds
Mr Rattenbury (in reply to a question and a supplementary question by Mr Wall on Thursday, 19 September 2019):
1. For the 2017-18 financial year ACT had 239 Nursing home day patients. The table below summarises the average cost, average cost per bed and average length of stay details (in days).
|
Episodes |
Length of stay (Days) |
Total Cost ($m) |
Average Cost ($) |
Average bed day cost ($) |
Average Length of stay (Days) |
|
239 |
9087 |
$10.51m |
$44,005 |
$1,157 |
38 |
2. Patients awaiting a permanent residential care space requiring clinical care in the public hospital system will typically attract Commonwealth funding.
A patient presenting to an ACT public hospital to receive care of any sort that is in-scope for the National Health Reform Agreement will attract a portion of the cost of the specific care requirements of that patient – expressed in National Weighted Activity Unit terms – paid against the prevailing National Efficient Price.
For the 239 episodes identified above, the ACT received approximately $2,432,067 from the Commonwealth in 2017-18, averaging $268 per bed day for those episodes.
While Commonwealth funding is a function of the patient’s length of stay in the hospital, it does not necessarily respond to changes in length of stay in a linear manner. Therefore, the average Commonwealth per day has been provided in here as a guidance only. It should not be interpreted as ‘for every additional bed day, the ACT will receive $268 from the Commonwealth’.
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