| Healthcare Worker Codes | Type of Healthcare worker | Extended Definition |
|---|---|---|
| N | Nurse/Midwife | All nurses – RN, Div 1, Div 2/EN, Midwives, Agency Staff, Domiciliary nurses, Psychiatric |
| DR | Medical Practitioner | All doctors – Consultants, Registrars, Residents, Interns, Visiting Consultants, GPs |
| PC | Personal Care Staff | PSA, AIN, PCW, wardsman, orderly, warders, ward/nursing assistants |
| AH | Allied Health Care Worker | Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Dieticians, Speech Pathologists, Radiographers, Pharmacists, P&O, Allied Health Assistants, Podiatrists, Music/Play therapists, Audiologists, Plaster technicians, ECG technicians |
| AC | Administrative and Clerical Staff | Ward clerks, admissions officers |
| BL | Invasive Technician | Phlebotomists, Dialysis technicians |
| D | Domestic | Staff engaged in the provision of food and cleaning services, maintenance people |
| SDR | Student Doctor | |
| SN | Student Nurse/Midwife | |
| SAH | Student Allied Health | |
| SPC | Student Personal Care | |
| O | Other | Persons not categorised elsewhere |
| AMB | Ambulance | Ambulance workers, patient transport |
| DO | Dentist | All dentists, specialist dentists |
| DT | Dental Therapists | Dental therapists, dental hygienist, dental prosthetist, oral health therapists |
| DA | Dental Assistant | Dental assistant, dental nurse |
| DL | Dental Technicians | Dental technician, laboratory staff (no patient contact) |
| SDO | Student Dentist | |
| SDT | Student Dental Therapists | |
| SDA | Student Dental Assistant/Dental Nurse | |
| SDL | Student Dental Technicians/Laboratory staff (no patient contact) |
| Department Type | Further Definitions |
|---|---|
| Acute Aged Care | Unit providing predominantly acute geriatric medical care |
| Ambulatory Care | Out-patient clinic/treatment |
| Critical Care Unit | Includes Coronary Care, Adult and Paediatric Intensive Care Units, High Dependency Unit |
| Dental | |
| Emergency Department |
Purposely designed and equipped area with designated assessment, treatment and resuscitation areas. Ability to provide resuscitation, stabilisation and initial management of all emergencies. Availability of medical staff in the hospital 24 hours a day. |
| Emergency Services | |
| Long-term Care | Includes residential care for adults and children, and transition wards for patients awaiting long-term care placement |
| Maternity | Delivery suite, maternity ward |
| Medical | Includes dermatology, neurology, respiratory etc |
| Mental Health | |
| Mixed | |
| Neonatal Care | Includes Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Special Care Nursery |
| Oncology/Haematology Unit | Includes Day Oncology |
| Other | If not defined within the other categories |
| Paediatrics | Children’s Wards of Non-paediatric hospitals |
| Palliative | |
| Peri-operative | Includes pre-operative units, theatre and recovery/post-anaesthesia care unit |
| Radiology/Radiation Oncology | Medical imaging, including nuclear medicine and interventional radiology units, radiation oncology |
| Renal | Includes dialysis |
| Sub Acute | Includes rehab, geriatric evaluation and management |
| Surgical | General and specialty surgical wards, including orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology, ENT, opthalmology etc |
| Transplantation Unit |
| Peer group name | Definition |
|---|---|
| Principal referral hospitals | Principal referral hospitals are public acute hospitals that provide a very broad range of services, have a range of highly specialised service units, and have very large patient volumes. The term ‘referral’ recognises that these hospitals have specialist facilities not typically found in smaller hospitals. |
| Group A hospitals |
Public acute group A hospitals are public acute hospitals that provide a wide range of services typically including a 24-hour emergency department, intensive care unit, coronary care unit and oncology unit, but do not provide the breadth of services provided by Principal referral hospitals. Private acute group A hospitals are private acute hospitals that have a 24-hour emergency department and an intensive care unit, and provide a number of other specialised services such as coronary care, special care nursery, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery. |
| Group B hospitals |
Public acute group B hospitals are those public acute hospitals that do not have the service profile of the Principal referral hospitals and Group A hospitals, but do have a 24-hour emergency department; they typically provide elective surgery and have specialised service units such as obstetric, paediatric and psychiatric units. Private acute group B hospitals are private acute hospitals that do not have a 24-hour emergency department, but do have an intensive care unit and a number of other specialised services including coronary care, special care nursery, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery |
| Group C hospitals |
Public acute group C hospitals include those public acute hospitals that provide a more limited range of services than Principal referral hospitals or Public acute group A and B hospitals, but do have an obstetric unit, provide surgical services and/or some form of emergency facility (emergency department, or accident and emergency service). Private acute group C hospitals are those private acute hospitals that do not provide emergency department services or have an intensive care unit, but do provide specialised services in a range of clinical specialities. |
| Group D hospitals |
Public acute group D hospitals are acute public hospitals that offer a smaller range of services relative to the other public acute hospital groups, and provide 200 or more separations per year. They are mostly situated in regional and remote areas. Private acute group C hospitals are those private acute hospitals that do not provide emergency department services or have an intensive care unit, but do provide specialised services in a range of clinical specialities. |
| Very small hospitals | Very small hospitals have few beds and provide care for few admitted patients. Most do not perform surgery. |
| Children's hospitals | Children’s hospitals which specialise in the treatment and care of children |
| Women's hospitals | Women’s hospitals which specialise in the treatment of women |
| Other women's and children's hospitals | Combined women’s and children’s hospitals which specialise in the treatment of both women and children. |
| Acute psychiatric hospitals | Acute hospitals that specialise in providing mental health services for people with a mental disorder or psychiatric disability, including some that primarily provide mental health services for specific population groups. |
| Other acute specialised hospitals | Other acute specialised hospitals are hospitals that specialise in a particular form of acute care, not grouped elsewhere. |
| Rehabilitation hospitals | Rehabilitation hospitals are hospitals that primarily provide rehabilitation and/or geriatric evaluation and management. |
| Mixed sub- and non-acute hospitals | Mixed sub- and non-acute hospitals primarily provide a mixture of subacute (rehabilitation, palliative care, geriatric evaluation and management, psychogeriatric care) and non-acute (maintenance) care |
| Dialysis clinics | Dialysis clinics are hospitals that specialise in providing dialysis treatment on a same day basis. |
| Endoscopy centres | Endoscopy centres are hospitals that specialise in providing endoscopic procedures on a same day basis. |
| Eye surgery clinic | Eye surgery centres are hospitals that specialise in providing eye surgery on a same day basis. |
| Haematology & oncology clinics | Haematology and oncology clinics are hospitals that specialise in providing medical care on a same day basis for cancer patients and/or patients with blood disorders. |
| Mixed day procedure hospitals | Mixed day procedure hospitals are day hospitals that do not meet the service profile of any specialised day hospital peer groups described above and Other specialist day hospitals (see Other specialist day hospitals section below). Rather than having a strong focus on one specialised clinical area, these hospitals typically provide a variety of specialised services on a same day basis |
| Oral & maxillofacial procedure centres | Oral and maxillofacial surgery centres are hospitals that specialise in providing treatment of oral and maxillofacial diseases and disorders on a same day basis. |
| Plastic & reconstructive surgery clinics | Plastic and reconstructive surgery centres are hospitals that specialise in providing reconstructive and plastic surgery on a same day basis. |
| Reproductive health centres | Reproductive health centres are hospitals that specialise in providing abortion services on a same day basis. |
| Unpeered hospitals | Unpeered hospitals are those hospitals with unique characteristics that could not be assigned to one of the peer groups. |
| Pending | Awaiting allocation to peer group from AIHW. |
| Principal referral and specialist women's and children's | A1 | Major city hospitals with >20,000 acute casemix adjusted separations and Regional hospitals with >16,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum |
|---|---|---|
| A2 | Specialised acute women’s and children’s hospitals with >10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum | |
| Large hospitals | B1 | Major city acute hospitals treating more than 10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum |
| B2 | Regional acute hospitals treating >8,000 acute casemix adjusted separations per annum, and remote hospitals with >5,000 casemix-adjusted separations | |
| Medium hospitals | C1 | Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 5,000 and 10,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations per annum |
| C2 | Medium acute hospitals in Regional and Major city areas treating between 2,000 and 5,000 acute casemix adjusted separations per annum, and acute hospitals treating <2,000 casemix-adjusted separations per annum but with >2,000 separations per annum | |
| Small acute hospitals | D1 | Small Regional acute hospitals (mainly small country town hospitals), acute hospitals treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with less than 40% nonacute and outlier patient days of total patient days |
| Small acute hospitals | D3 | Small remote hospitals (<5,000 acute casemix-adjusted separations but not 'Multipurpose services' and not 'Small non-acute'. Most are <2,000 separations |
| Small sub-acute and non-acute hospitals | D2 E2 G | Small non-acute hospitals, treating <2,000 separations per annum, and with more than 40% non-acute and outlier patient days of total patient days (D2) plus Multipurpose service (E2) – Small sub-acute and non-acute hospitals (G) |
| Group | Number of beds |
|---|---|
| PPG 1 | >400 acute inpatient beds |
| PPG 2 | 301-400 acute inpatient beds |
| PPG 3 | 201-300 acute inpatient beds |
| PPG 4 | 151-200 acute inpatient beds |
| PPG 5 | 101-150 acute inpatient beds |
| PPG 6 | 51-100 acute inpatient beds |
| PPG 7 | <51 acute inpatient beds |
| Size | Number of procedures |
|---|---|
| Large | Stand alone facility performing >5,000 procedures per annum |
| Medium | Stand alone facility performing 2,000 -5,000 procedures per annum |
| Small | Stand alone facility performing <2,000 procedures per annum |
| Size | Number of procedures |
|---|---|
| Large | Stand alone facility performing >5,000 procedures per annum |
| Small | Stand alone facility performing <5,000 procedures per annum |