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Local Hospital Networks data element cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term643161
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

The scope of the Local Hospital Networks (LHN) data element cluster is all activity, recurrent expenditure and related revenue in the LHN General Ledger, regardless of whether all components are a 'public hospital service' under the National Health Reform Agreement (2011).

Excluded from the scope are data reported to the Public hospital establishments and the State or territory health authority data element clusters.

Local Hospital Networks are defined as those entities recognised as such by the relevant state or territory health authority.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this term

Local Hospital Network.

For the purposes of this data element cluster, the term 'establishment' refers to Local Hospital Networks.

Guide for use:Help on this term

The following are principles of the collection. States and territories should consider these principles when providing data.

  1. Data should be reported by states and territories at the level relevant to service management and/or provision.
  2. This data element cluster should capture and differentiate between in-scope and out-of-scope of the National Health Reform Agreement.
  3. This data element cluster must specify where data elements are reporting actual data and where they are reporting estimated data.
  4. Where possible, this data element cluster should align so that it acts as a subset of the Government health expenditure NMDS.
  5. Reporting on expenditure and activity delivered under contract requires less detail than other expenditure and activity.

Actual recurrent expenditure and related revenue data are expected to be reported at the level at which they appear in the general ledger. Expenditure and revenue data are not expected to be apportioned to a lower level.

Recurrent expenditure and related revenue data reported to the LHN data element cluster should reconcile with published financial statements.

Expenditure data are reported in two ways:

  • as it would appear in the general ledger line items (Establishment—recurrent non-salary expenditure, public hospital expenditure categories code N[N] and Establishment—staffing categories, health code N[N])
  • by National Health Reform Agreement product streams Establishment—total recurrent expenditure, National Health Reform Agreement 2011 product streams code N[N]. These are estimated data.

The total recurrent expenditure by product stream should equal the total recurrent expenditure by general ledger line item.

For the purposes of the LHN data element cluster, funding from the Commonwealth, state and territory health authorities and other state and territory government departments is considered to be revenue and should be reported as such.

Collection methods:Help on this term

Some data for this data element cluster are sourced from the state or territory health authority general ledger. Some other data are maintained by the LHN and are forwarded to the relevant state or territory health authority for inclusion.

National reporting arrangements

State and territory health authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis.

Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated

Financial years ending 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:Help on this term01/07/2017
Comments:Help on this term

Interaction with the Public hospital establishments and State or territory health authority data element clusters

The Public hospital establishments (PHE), LHN and State or territory health authority data element clusters work together to collect data on the public hospital system. The three data element clusters collect the same types of recurrent expenditure and related revenue data items, but at different levels of the system:

 

Hierarchical levelData collected through
Public hospital establishmentsPHE component
Local hospital networkLHN component
State/territory health authorityState/territory component

It is expected that recurrent expenditure and related revenue data will be reported at the level at which they occur.

Scope links with Health NMDSs

The State or territory health authority data element cluster shares scope with the Government health expenditure NMDS.

Source and reference attributes

Steward:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Local Hospital Networks data element cluster
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 17/10/2018
Supersedes Local Hospital Networks NBEDS 2016–17
  • Health, Superseded 03/11/2016
See also Public hospital establishments data element cluster
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
See also State or territory health authority data element cluster
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Local Hospital Networks/Public hospital establishments NMDS 2017–18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018


Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Full-time equivalent staffing data element clusterMandatory10
-Recurrent contracted care expenditure data element clusterMandatory1
-Recurrent non-salary expenditure data element clusterMandatory1
-Recurrent salaries and wages expenditure data element clusterMandatory1
-Revenue data element clusterMandatory1
-Total recurrent expenditure on National Health Reform Agreement product streams data element clusterMandatory1
-Available bed—admitted contracted care, average number of beds N[N(7).N]

DSS specific information:

This data element is used in conjunction with Establishment—data estimate indicator, yes/no code N.

Mandatory1
-Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code NMandatory1
-Establishment—Local Hospital Network identifier, code NNNMandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (state/territory), NNNNNMandatory1
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