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HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS

Accreditation

Hospital accreditation has been identified as an indicator of capability within the National Health Performance Framework (for further information refer to Australian Hospital Statistics 2011-12, produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)).

As at 30 June 2012, the main organisations used by hospitals to obtain accreditation were the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) (used by 313 hospitals) and Benchmark Certification (used by 81 hospitals). Acute and psychiatric hospitals in New South Wales were less likely to hold ACHS accreditation than Acute and psychiatric hospitals in other states (53.9% in New South Wales, compared to 70.9% in Victoria and 70.4% in Queensland). The state with the lowest proportion of ACHS accredited Free-standing day hospitals was Western Australia (31.4%).

TABLE 1.8: PRIVATE HOSPITALS, Accreditation/Certification status(a)—at 30 June 2012
	ACHS(b)		Benchmark certification		Other (c)
	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	All private hospitals
	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Acute and psychiatric hospitals
New South Wales	48	41	16	73	54	35	89
Victoria	56	23	5	74	26	53	79
Queensland	38	16	np	np	19	35	54
South Australia	21	7	np	np	np	18	28
Western Australia	17	np	np	np	11	11	22
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (d)	8	np	np	np	np	7	9
Australia	188	93	33	248	122	159	281
Free-standing day hospital facilities
New South Wales	45	51	14	82	50	46	96
Victoria	27	58	17	68	52	33	85
Queensland	20	33	np	np	35	18	53
South Australia	13	13	np	np	14	12	26
Western Australia	11	24	np	np	20	15	35
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (d)	9	7	np	np	7	9	16
Australia	125	186	48	263	178	133	311
All private hospitals
New South Wales	93	92	30	155	104	81	185
Victoria	83	81	22	142	78	86	164
Queensland	58	49	12	95	54	53	107
South Australia	34	20	np	53	24	30	54
Western Australia	28	29	11	46	31	26	57
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (d)	17	8	np	20	9	16	25
Australia (d)	313	279	81	511	300	292	592
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) Private hospitals can be accredited with more than one organisation. (b) Accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (2004). (c) Accreditation or certification with other body. For definition of accredited/certified hospitals, see Glossary. (d) Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories.