HOSPITALS
There were 581 private hospitals operating in Australia in 2009-10 compared with 564 in 2008-09. This represented an overall increase of 3.0% in the total number of private hospitals, the net effect of an unchanged number of Acute and psychiatric hospitals and an increase of 17 Free-standing day hospitals.
The number of available beds and chairs increased 2.1% from 27,180 in 2008-09 to 27,748 in 2009-10. The number of beds and chairs in Acute and psychiatric hospitals increased by 1.0% while those in Free-standing day hospitals increased by 13.1%.
Total patient separations were 6.7% higher overall in 2009-10 compared to 2008-09. There were almost 3.6 million patient separations from all private hospitals in 2009-10, compared with 3.4 million in 2008-09.
Private hospitals provided 8.4 million days of hospitalisation to patients in 2009-10, up 3.7% on 2008-09 (8.1 million).
Staff numbers (full-time equivalent) increased by 8.5% to 56,560 in 2009-10 compared to 2008-09 (52,114).
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