Establishment (mental health)—full-time equivalent staff (paid), total N[NNN{.N}]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Full-time equivalent staff (mental health)—all staff |
METEOR identifier: | 296553 |
Registration status: | Health, Retired 11/04/2014 |
Definition: | The aggregate full-time equivalent staff units paid for all staffing categories within a mental health establishment. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) |
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METEOR identifier: | 269927 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 |
Definition: | The aggregate full-time equivalent staff units paid for all staffing categories within an establishment. |
Context: | Health expenditure: To assist in analyses of the resource use and activity of health services. Inclusion of these data, classified by staffing category, allows analysis of costs per unit of labour and analysis of staffing inputs against hospital or service unit outputs. |
Object class: | Establishment |
Property: | Full-time equivalent staff |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total full-time equivalent staff N[NNN{.N}] |
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METEOR identifier: | 270748 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Health, Standard 08/12/2004 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 17/10/2017 Indigenous, Standard 16/09/2014 |
Definition: | Total number of full-time equivalent units. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[NNN{.N}] | |
Maximum character length: | 5 | |
Unit of measure: | Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The total is to be calculated from pay period figures. The length of the pay period is assumed to be a fortnight. Full-time equivalent staff units are the on-job hours paid for (including overtime) and hours of paid leave of any type for a staff member (or contract employee where applicable) divided by the number of ordinary-time hours normally paid for a full-time staff member when on the job (or contract employee where applicable) under the relevant award or agreement for the staff member (or contract employee occupation where applicable). Hours of unpaid leave are to be excluded. Contract staff employed through an agency are included where the contract is for the supply of labour (e.g. nursing) rather than of products (e.g. photocopier maintenance). In the former case, the contract would normally specify the amount of labour supplied and could be reported as full-time equivalent units. |
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Collection methods: | Data on full-time equivalent staffing numbers by category should be consistent with data on salaries and wages by staffing category. If the full-time equivalent for contract staff is not collected then salaries for those contract staff should be included in other recurrent expenditure data items. Where staff provide services to more than one hospital (for Public hospitals NMDS) or service unit (for Mental health establishments NMDS), full-time equivalent staff members should be apportioned between all establishments to which services are provided on the basis of hours paid for in each (salary costs should be apportioned on the same basis). |
Comments: | This metadata item was amended during 1996-97. Until then, both average and end of year counts of full-time equivalent staff were included, and the end of year counts used as surrogates for the average counts if the latter were unavailable. The average count is more useful for accurate analysis of staffing inputs for establishment outputs and for assessments and comparisons of labour costs. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Mental health establishments NMDS 2005-06 Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 DSS specific information: Obligation condition: Must be supplied if the sub-categories cannot be supplied. Can also be supplied if the sub-categories are supplied. Mental health establishments NMDS 2005-06 Health, Superseded 21/03/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 DSS specific information: Obligation condition: Must be supplied if the sub-categories cannot be supplied. Can also be supplied if the sub-categories are supplied. For the Mental health establishments national minimum data set reporting of this data element is optional for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. NOTE: Data for the sub-categories of Salaried medical officers and diagnostic and health professionals, and the categories of Carer consultants and Consumer consultants to be reported for Mental health establishments NMDS only. Mental health establishments NMDS 2006-07 Health, Superseded 23/10/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2006 Implementation end date: 30/06/2007 DSS specific information: Obligation condition: Must be supplied if the sub-categories cannot be supplied. Can also be supplied if the sub-categories are supplied. For the Mental health establishments national minimum data set reporting of this data element is optional for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. NOTE: Data for the sub-categories of Salaried medical officers and diagnostic and health professionals, and the categories of Carer consultants and Consumer consultants to be reported for Mental health establishments NMDS only. Mental health establishments NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Implementation start date: 01/07/2007 Implementation end date: 30/06/2008 DSS specific information: Obligation condition: Must be supplied if the sub-categories cannot be supplied. Can also be supplied if the sub-categories are supplied. For the Mental health establishments national minimum data set reporting of this data element is optional for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. NOTE: Data for the sub-categories of Salaried medical officers and diagnostic and health professionals, and the categories of Carer consultants and Consumer consultants to be reported for Mental health establishments NMDS only. Mental health establishments NMDS 2008-09 Health, Superseded 03/12/2008 Implementation start date: 01/07/2008 Implementation end date: 30/06/2009 DSS specific information: Obligation condition: Must be supplied if the sub-categories cannot be supplied. Can also be supplied if the sub-categories are supplied. For the Mental health establishments national minimum data set reporting of this data element is optional for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. NOTE: Data for the sub-categories of Salaried medical officers and diagnostic and health professionals, and the categories of Carer consultants and Consumer consultants to be reported for Mental health establishments NMDS only. Mental health establishments NMDS 2009-10 Health, Superseded 02/12/2009 Implementation start date: 01/07/2009 Implementation end date: 30/06/2010 DSS specific information: Obligation condition: Must be supplied if the sub-categories cannot be supplied. Can also be supplied if the sub-categories are supplied. For the Mental health establishments national minimum data set reporting of this data element is optional for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. NOTE: Data for the sub-categories of Salaried medical officers and diagnostic and health professionals, and the categories of Carer consultants and Consumer consultants to be reported for Mental health establishments NMDS only. |