HOSPITALS, BEDS AND CHAIRS

In 2012-13, there were 254 private Acute and psychiatric hospitals across Australia, up from 252 in 2011-12. The number of Psychiatric hospitals decreased by one from 29 in 2011-12 to 28 in 2012-13.

A little over three quarters (77.7%) of private Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia were located in metropolitan areas in 2012-13.

In 2012-13, 15.2% of all Acute and psychiatric hospitals were co-located with a public hospital. New South Wales had the highest number of co-located hospitals (15) followed by Victoria (7).

The most common hospital size in Acute and psychiatric hospitals across Australia was 51-100 beds, with 29.8% of hospitals falling into this group. Queensland had the greatest number of hospitals with over 200 beds (8).

There were 25,172 beds available in Acute hospitals in Australia during 2012-13, and 1,717 beds for Psychiatric hospitals over the same period. More than three quarters of the beds in the Acute hospital sector were in New South Wales, Victoria or Queensland (75.6%). The same state pattern was evident in the Psychiatric hospital sector (83.8% for those three states). There were 846 more acute beds available in 2012-13 than in 2011-12, an increase of 3.5%, with New South Wales adding 148 beds and Victoria adding 419 acute beds over this period. The number of Psychiatric hospital beds increased by 12 (0.7%) between 2011-12 and 2012-13, with an increase in Queensland of 54 beds and a decrease of 46 beds in Victoria.

TABLE 2.3: PRIVATE ACUTE AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND BEDS(a), States and territories—2012-13
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas., NT & ACT(b)	Australia
		Hospitals (no.)
Type of hospital
	Acute	81	73	48	np	18	np	254
	Psychiatric	11	5	6	np	3	np	28
	Total acute and psychiatric	92	78	54	28	21	9	282
Location
	Metropolitan(c)	75	63	37	20	np	np	219
	Rural(c)	17	15	17	8	np	np	63
Co-located with a public hospital		15	7	6	5	5	5	43
Hospital size(a)
	0–25 beds	16	10	9	9	4	-	48
	26–50 beds	21	22	8	np	np	np	62
	51–100 beds	35	20	14	7	4	4	84
	101–200 beds	14	21	15	5	np	np	61
	Over 200 beds	6	5	8	np	6	np	27
		Beds (no.)
Type of hospital
	Acute hospitals	6,612	6,792	5,623	np	3,325	np	25,172
	Psychiatric hospitals	531	422	485	np	161	np	1,717
	Total beds	7,143	7,214	6,108	1,861	3,486	1,077	26,889
Location
	Metropolitan(c)	6,130	6,369	5,094	1,730	np	np	23,499
	Rural(c)	1,013	845	1,014	131	np	np	3,390
		Proportion of all private acute and psychiatric hospitals (%)
Hospitals		32.6	27.7	19.1	9.9	7.4	3.2	100.0
Beds(a)		26.6	26.8	22.7	6.9	13.0	4.0	100.0
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) Based on the number of available beds (average for the year). (b) Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories. (c) Metropolitan and rural are two classifications included in the newly introduced Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). See Glossary for further information.

Private Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia can be divided into the 'For profit' and 'Not for profit' sectors. More than half (61.0%) of the private Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia in 2012-13 operated on a For profit basis. A further 29.1% were Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals, with the remainder being considered Other Not for profit hospitals. In New South Wales 80.4% of the Acute and psychiatric hospitals were For profit institutions, substantially higher than in Victoria (62.6%) and Queensland (16.3%).

The majority of Acute and psychiatric hospitals operating for profit in Australia during 2012-13 were located in metropolitan areas (85.5%), a higher proportion than for Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals (69.5%) and Other Not for profit hospitals (53.6%).

The most common hospital size was 51-100 beds in For profit hospitals (32.6%), and Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals (29.3%). Other Not for profit hospitals tended to have fewer beds, with 39.3% having 0-25 beds.

The total number of beds in Acute and psychiatric hospitals has increased by 3.3% to 26,889 in 2012-13. The number of beds in the For profit sector increased by 3.8% to 14,590 beds, while the Religious or charitable Not for profit sector recorded a 1.6% increase.

The proportion of beds in Acute and psychiatric hospitals located in metropolitan areas ranged from 91.4% in For profit hospitals to 81.7% in Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals.

TABLE 2.4: PRIVATE ACUTE AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, Australia—Sector(a)—2012-13
			Not for profit
		For profit	Religious or charitable	Other(b)	Total
		Hospitals
States and Territories
	New South Wales	74	np	np	92
	Victoria	46	20	12	78
	Queensland	28	np	np	54
	South Australia	8	11	9	28
	Western Australia	np	7	np	21
	Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory(c)	np	np	np	9
	Australia	172	82	28	282
Location
	Metropolitan(d)	147	57	15	219
	Rural(d)	25	25	13	63
Hospital size(e)
	0–25 beds	26	11	11	48
	26–50 beds	45	12	5	62
	51–100 beds	56	24	4	84
	101–200 beds	np	23	np	61
	Over 200 beds	np	12	np	27
		Beds (no.)
Location
	Metropolitan(d)	13,341	8,040	2,118	23,499
	Rural(d)	1,249	1,800	341	3,390
	Total beds(e)	14,590	9,840	2,459	26,889
np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) For definition of 'For Profit/Not for profit sector', see Glossary. (b) Comprising bush nursing, community and memorial hospitals. (c) Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories. (d) Metropolitan and rural are two classifications included in the newly introduced Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). See Glossary for further information. (e) Based on available beds (average for the year).

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