• Health, Superseded 07/05/2020

A total of 137 Local Hospital Networks have been established across the states and territories. Most of these are geographically based networks and some are state or territory-wide networks that may deliver specialised hospital services across some jurisdictions.

CODE 101   South Eastern Sydney

Includes Lord Howe Island.

Codes 217, 230, 232, 237, 238, 239, 265, 272, 310, 311, 404, 601, 602 and 603 have been deleted from previous versions of the list of permissible values and are not to be reused.

For activity based funding purposes, a virtual Local Hospital Network identifier exists for each jurisdiction. Virtual Local Hospital Networks are entities that are only used for reporting services that are in-scope for activity based funding but which cannot be allocated to an established Local Hospital Network. The various virtual Local Hospital Network identifiers are intended to be primarily used to enable reconciliation of activity reported for funding purposes.

Some jurisdictions have their own local terminology for the areas and administrative units known nationally as Local Hospital Networks. For example, in New South Wales they are known as 'Local Health Districts', in Queensland they are known as 'Hospital and Health Services', in Western Australia they are known as 'Health Service Providers', and in South Australia they are known as 'Local Health Networks'.

More information about Local Hospital Networks is available through the Local Hospital Network portal on the Administrator National Health Funding Pool website.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Administrator National Health Funding Pool 2017. Local hospital network (LHN) directory. Viewed 9 September 2019, https://reports.publichospitalfunding.gov.au/Directory

A concatenation of:

Australian state/territory identifier (character position 1);

State/Territory-specific hospital network identifier (character positions 2-3).

The Local Hospital Network identifier should be able to distinguish between all public hospital administrative areas or units nationally.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare