Establishment—psychiatric unit/ward indicator, yes/no code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termPsychiatric unit/ward indicator
METEOR identifier:Help on this term620003
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 03/11/2016
Definition:Help on this term

An indicator of whether an establishment includes a unit/ward dedicated to the treatment and care of admitted patients with psychiatric, mental, or behavioural disorders, as represented by a code.

Context:Help on this term

Health services

Data Element Concept:Establishment—psychiatric unit/ward indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termBoolean
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Yes
2No

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

National Health Data Committee

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Establishment—specialised service indicator (psychiatric unit/ward), yes/no code N
  • Health, Superseded 03/11/2016
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2020–21Health, Superseded 05/02/2021

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Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2021–22Health, Superseded 17/12/2021

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 2022–23Health, Standard 17/12/2021

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 2023–24Health, Recorded 24/06/2024

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 clusterHealth, Superseded 25/01/2018

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017


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Health, Superseded 17/10/2018

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018


Public hospital establishments data element clusterHealth, Standard 17/10/2018

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019