HOSPITALS
The total number of private Free-standing day hospital facilities increased by 17 establishments, from 285 in 2008-09 to 302 in 2009-10. The largest number of Free-standing day hospitals were situated in New South Wales (92 facilities or 30.5% of all Free-standing day hospitals across Australia). The largest increase of all the states and territories was in Victoria and Western Australia, with net increases of eight and six private Free-standing day hospitals since 2008-09 respectively.
The average number of beds/chairs in Free-standing day hospital facilities increased by 327 (13.1%), from 2,495 in 2008-09 to 2,822 in 2009-10. New South Wales accounted for the largest proportion of beds/chairs with 841 beds/chairs or 29.8% of the total average number of beds across Australia.
The number of operating theatres increased by 5.4% from 280 to 295 over the year period, while the number of procedure rooms rose by 9.8% to 258 rooms.
The four main types of specialised Free-standing day hospitals in 2009-10 and their proportion of the total were Specialist endoscopy (25.5%), Ophthalmic (17.5%), Plastic/cosmetic (10.9%) and General surgery (7.0%).
Patient separations
Patient separations from Free-standing day hospital facilities continued to increase from 765,264 in 2008-09 to 860,252 in 2009-10, an increase of 12.4%. This increase was comparable with previous increasing trends; on average, the annual increase in patient separations was 12.6% over the five years to 2009-10.
Staff
The total number of full-time equivalent staff in Free-standing day hospital facilities increased by 18.0% to 3,185 in 2009-10. Nursing staff accounted for 54.9% (1,748) of total staff in 2009-10, a proportional decrease of 1.1% from 2008-09. Over this period administrative and clerical staff increased by 8.9% to 928 full-time equivalent staff.
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