HOSPITALS, BEDS AND CHAIRS

In 2011-12, there were 252 Acute private hospitals across Australia, up from 251 in 2010-11. The number of Psychiatric hospitals increased by one from 28 in 2010-11 to 29 in 2011-12.

About three quarters (76.9%) of Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia were located in metropolitan areas in 2011-12.

In 2011-12, 14.6% of all Acute and psychiatric hospitals were co-located with a public hospital. New South Wales had the highest number of co-located hospitals (14) followed by Victoria (7).

The most common hospital size in Acute and psychiatric hospitals across Australia was 51-100 beds. Nearly a third (31.0%) of the hospitals fell into this group. Queensland had the greatest number of hospitals with over 200 beds (7).

There were 24,326 beds available in Acute hospitals in Australia during 2011-12, and 1,705 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 (75.7%). The same state pattern was evident in the Psychiatric hospital sector (83.9% for those three states). There were 565 more Acute beds available in 2011-12 than in 2010-11, an increase of 2.4%, with New South Wales adding 259 beds and Victoria adding 193 beds over this period. The number of psychiatric hospital beds increased by 72 beds (4.4%) between 2010-11 and 2011-12, with New South Wales adding 32 new beds.

TABLE 2.3: PRIVATE ACUTE AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND BEDS(a), States and territories—2011–12
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas., NT & ACT(b)	Australia
		Hospitals (no.)
Type of hospital
	Acute	79	72	48	np	19	np	252
	Psychiatric	10	7	6	np	3	np	29
	Total acute and psychiatric	89	79	54	28	22	9	281
Location
	Metropolitan (c)	72	62	37	np	18	np	216
	Rural (c)	17	17	17	np	4	np	65
Co-located with a public hospital		14	7	6	5	4	5	41
Hospital size (a)
	0–25 beds	15	15	9	np	3	np	50
	26–50 beds	19	19	8	np	6	np	59
	51–100 beds	36	19	16	np	4	np	87
	101–200 beds	13	21	14	np	3	np	58
	Over 200 beds	6	5	7	np	6	np	27
		Beds (no.)
Type of hospital
	Acute hospitals	6 464	6 373	5 586	np	3 127	np	24 326
	Psychiatric hospitals	531	468	431	np	157	np	1 705
	Total beds	6 995	6 841	6 017	np	3 284	np	26 031
Location
	Metropolitan (c)	6 005	6 042	5 006	1 736	np	np	22 719
	Rural (c)	990	799	1 011	np	np	np	3 312
		Proportion of all private acute and psychiatric hospitals (%)
Hospitals		31.7	28.1	19.2	10.0	7.8	3.2	100
Beds (a)		26.9	26.3	23.1	np	np	np	100
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 (59.1%) of the private Acute and psychiatric hospitals in Australia in 2011-12 operated on a For profit basis. A further 29.9% were Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals, with the remainder being considered Other Not for profit hospitals. In New South Wales 78.7% of the Acute and psychiatric hospitals were For profit institutions, substantially higher than in Victoria (58.2%) and Western Australia (54.5%).

The majority of Acute and psychiatric hospitals operating for profit in Australia during 2011-12 were located in metropolitan areas (87.3%), a higher proportion than for Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals (66.7%) and Other Not for profit hospitals (48.4%).

The most common hospital size was 51-100 beds in For profit hospitals (35.5%), and 101-200 beds in Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals (28.6%). Other Not for profit hospitals tended to have fewer beds, with 48.4% having 0-25 beds.

The total number of beds in Acute and psychiatric hospitals has increased by 2.5% to 26,031 in 2011-12. The number of beds in the For profit sector increased by 4.0% to 14,051 beds, while the Religious or charitable Not for profit sector recorded a 9.0% decrease.

The proportion of beds in Acute and psychiatric hospitals located in metropolitan areas ranged from 92.1% in For profit hospitals to 80.4% in Religious or charitable Not for profit hospitals.

TABLE 2.4: PRIVATE ACUTE AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, Australia—Sector(a)—2011–12
		For profit	Religious or charitable	Other (b)	Total
		Hospitals
New South Wales		70	16	3	89
Victoria		46	20	13	79
Queensland		np	np	np	54
South Australia		7	10	11	28
Western Australia		12	np	np	22
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (c)		np	np	np	9
Australia		166	84	31	281
Location
	Metropolitan (d)	145	56	15	216
	Rural (d)	21	28	16	65
Hospital size (e)
	0–25 beds	21	14	15	50
	26–50 beds	44	11	4	59
	51–100 beds	59	23	5	87
	101–200 beds	np	24	np	58
	Over 200 beds	np	12	np	27
		Beds (no.)
Location
	Metropolitan (d)	12 934	7 784	2 001	22 719
	Rural (d)	1 117	1 902	293	3 312
	Total beds (e)	14 051	9 686	2 294	26 031
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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