Establishment—neurosurgical unit indicator, yes/no code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Neurosurgical unit indicator
METEOR identifier:	619953
Registration status:	Health, Standard 03/11/2016
Definition:	An indicator of whether an establishment includes a facility dedicated to the surgical treatment of neurological conditions, as represented by a code.
Context:	Health services
Data Element Concept:	Establishment—neurosurgical unit indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Boolean

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:

Essential to provide a broad picture of the availability of key specialised services by State and region and to assist with planning if services are over supplied in one region relative to another.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:

National Health Data Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2020 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2021 *Conditional obligation:* This metadata item is only required for the Public Hospital Establishments (PHE) reporting level. It is collected once for each PHE.

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2021 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2022 *Conditional obligation:* This metadata item is only required for the Public Hospital Establishments (PHE) reporting level. It is collected once for each PHE.

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2022 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2023 *Conditional obligation:* This metadata item is only required for the Public Hospital Establishments (PHE) reporting level. It is collected once for each PHE.

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2023–24 Health, Recorded 24/06/2024

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2023 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2024 *Conditional obligation:* This metadata item is only required for the Public Hospital Establishments (PHE) reporting level. It is collected once for each PHE.

Public hospital establishments data element cluster Health, Superseded 25/01/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2017

Public hospital establishments data element cluster ACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
Health, Superseded 17/10/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2018

Public hospital establishments data element cluster Health, Standard 17/10/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2019