Establishment—recurrent expenditure (visiting medical officer payments) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Recurrent expenditure—payments to visiting medical officers |
METEOR identifier: | 727426 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/01/2021 |
Definition: | All payments measured in Australian dollars made by an institutional health care establishment to visiting medical officers for medical services provided to hospital (public) patients on an honorary, sessionally paid, or fee for service basis, for a financial year. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Establishment—recurrent expenditure (visiting medical officer payments) |
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METEOR identifier: | 269520 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | All payments made by an institutional health care establishment to visiting medical officers for medical services provided to hospital (public) patients on an honorary, sessionally paid, or fee for service basis. A visiting medical officer is a medical practitioner appointed by the hospital board to provide medical services for hospital (public) patients on an honorary, sessionally paid, or fee for service basis. This category includes the same Australian Standard Classification of Occupations codes as the salaried medical officers category. |
Context: | Health expenditure: This is a significant element of expenditure for many hospitals (although not for other establishments) and needed for health financing and health expenditure analysis at the national level. Any analysis of health expenditures at the national level would tend to break down if significant components of expenditure were not available. |
Object class: | Establishment |
Property: | Recurrent expenditure |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total Australian currency N[N(8)] |
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METEOR identifier: | 270563 |
Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | Total number of Australian dollars. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Currency | |
Format: | N[N(8)] | |
Maximum character length: | 9 | |
Unit of measure: | Australian currency (AU$) |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record as currency up to hundreds of millions of dollars. Rounded to nearest whole dollar. Data on salary payments for visiting medical officers are to be reported to this recurrent expenditure metadata item; salary payments for visiting medical officers are not to be included in data reported to staffing category salary and wages payments. Where available, the average number of full-time equivalent staff units paid for all visiting medical officers within an establishment is to be reported in the appropriate full-time equivalent staffing category. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Establishment—recurrent expenditure (visiting medical officer payments) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Is used in the formation of Establishment (mental health)—recurrent expenditure (non-salary operating costs) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Standard 20/01/2021 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Mental health establishments NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 DSS specific information: Reporting of this data element is not compulsory for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. However, these services are still encouraged to report this data where available. Mental health establishments NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 09/12/2022 Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 DSS specific information: Reporting of this data element is not compulsory for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. However, these services are still encouraged to report this data where available. Mental health establishments NMDS 2023–24 Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2024 DSS specific information: Reporting of this data element is not compulsory for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. However, these services are still encouraged to report this data where available. Mental health establishments NMDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 Implementation end date: 30/06/2025 DSS specific information: Reporting of this data element is not compulsory for non-government residential mental health services and specialised mental health services provided by private hospitals that receive state or territory government funding. However, these services are still encouraged to report this data where available. |