4390.0 - Private Hospitals, Australia, 2013-14

Quality Declaration

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 29/05/2015

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HOSPITALS, BEDS AND CHAIRS

There were 257 Acute private hospitals and 29 psychiatric hospitals across Australia in 2013-14. Since 1012-13 there has been an increase of four acute hospitals and one psychiatric hospital.

A little over three quarters (77.6%) of Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia were located in metropolitan areas in 2013-14.

In 2013-14, 16.4% of all Acute and psychiatric hospitals were co-located with a public hospital. New South Wales had the highest number of co-located hospitals (16) followed by Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia with seven in each state.

The most common hospital size in Acute and psychiatric hospitals across Australia was 51-100 beds, with 29.4% of hospitals falling into this group. Queensland had the most hospitals with over 200 beds, with eight hospitals in this category.

There were 26,124 beds available in Acute hospitals and 1,819 beds in Psychiatric hospitals in 2013-14. More than three quarters of the beds in the Acute hospital sector were in New South Wales, Victoria or Queensland (75.6%). Among Psychiatric hospitals, 84.7% of beds were located in those three states. There were 952 more Acute beds available in 2013-14 than in 2012-13, an increase of 3.8%. Queensland added 379 beds, Victoria added 264 beds and Western Australia added 201 beds over this period. The number of Psychiatric hospital beds increased by 102 (5.9%) between 2012-13 and 2013-14.

TABLE 2.3: PRIVATE ACUTE AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND BEDS(a), States and territories—2013-14
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas., NT & ACT(b)	Australia

		Hospitals (no.)
Type of hospital
	Acute	79	74	50	np	19	np	257
	Psychiatric	12	5	6	np	3	np	29
	Total acute and psychiatric	91	79	56	28	22	10	286
Location
	Metropolitan (c)	74	64	38	20	np	np	222
	Rural (c)	17	15	18	8	np	np	64
Co-located with a public hospital		16	7	7	5	7	5	47
Hospital size (a)
	0–25 beds	14	10	9	9	np	np	48
	26–50 beds	20	20	9	5	np	np	59
	51–100 beds	36	20	13	8	4	3	84
	101–200 beds	15	24	17	np	np	np	68
	Over 200 beds	6	5	8	np	np	np	27

		Beds (no.)
Type of hospital
	Acute hospitals	6,704	7,056	6,002	np	3,526	np	26,124
	Psychiatric hospitals	622	440	478	np	np	np	1,819
	Total beds	7,326	7,496	6,480	1,863	np	np	27,943
Location
	Metropolitan (c)	6,281	6,630	5,392	1,736	np	np	24,394
	Rural (c)	1,045	866	1,088	127	np	np	3,549

		Proportion of all private acute and psychiatric hospitals (%)

Hospitals		31.8	27.6	19.6	9.8	7.7	3.5	100.0
Beds (a)		26.2	26.8	23.2	6.7	np	np	100.0

— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) Based on the number of available beds (average for the year). (b) Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories. (c) Metropolitan and rural are two classifications included in the newly introduced Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). See Glossary for further information.

Private Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia can be divided into the For profit and Not for profit sectors. More than half (61.9%) of the private Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia in 2013-14 operated on a For profit basis. A further 38.1% were Not for profit hospitals, being either Religious or charitable (30.8%) or Other (7.3%). In New South Wales 80.4% of the Acute and psychiatric hospitals were For profit institutions, substantially higher than any other state or territory. South Australia had the lowest proportion of hospitals in the For profit sector (28.6%).

The majority of Acute and psychiatric hospitals operating for profit in Australia during 2013-14 were located in metropolitan areas (85.3%), a higher proportion than for Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals (67.0%) and Other Not for profit hospitals (57.1%).

The total number of beds in Acute and psychiatric hospitals has increased by 3.9% to 27,943 in 2013-14. The number of beds in the For profit sector increased by 6.3% to 15,515 beds, while the Religious or charitable Not for profit sector recorded a 1.0% increase.

The proportion of beds in Acute and psychiatric hospitals located in metropolitan areas ranged from 90.9% in For profit hospitals to 82.2% in Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals.

TABLE 2.4: PRIVATE ACUTE AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, Australia—Sector(a)—2013-14
		For profit	Not for profit		Total

			Religious or charitable	Other (b)

		Hospitals
States and Territories
	New South Wales	74	np	np	91
	Victoria	47	21	11	79
	Queensland	30	np	np	56
	South Australia	8	np	np	28
	Western Australia	13	9	-	22
	Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (c)	5	np	np	10
	Australia	177	88	21	286
Location
	Metropolitan (d)	151	59	12	222
	Rural (d)	26	29	9	64
Hospital size (e)
	0–25 beds	25	15	8	48
	26–50 beds	42	13	4	59
	51–100 beds	np	23	np	84
	101–200 beds	40	24	4	68
	Over 200 beds	np	13	np	27

		Beds (no.)
Location
	Metropolitan (d)	14,101	8,546	1,747	24,394
	Rural (d)	1,414	1,849	286	3,549
	Total beds (e)	15,515	10,395	2,033	27,943

np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) For definition of 'For Profit/not for profit sector', see Glossary. (b) Comprising bush nursing, community and memorial hospitals. (c) Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories. (d) Metropolitan and rural are two classifications included in the newly introduced Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). See Glossary for further information. (e) Based on available beds (average for the year).