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HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS

Accreditation

Hospital accreditation has been identified as an indicator of capability within the National Health Performance Framework (for further information refer to Australian Hospital Statistics 2012-13, produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)).

The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards accredited more hospitals (48.5%) than any other organisation in 2012-13 followed by Global Mark Pty Ltd (25.0%). Private hospitals can be accredited with more than one organisation and 210 obtained accreditation from other organisations.

Acute and psychiatric hospitals were more likely to hold ACHS accreditation (61.2%) than Global Mark Pty Ltd (14.7%) while there was little difference between the two in Free-standing day hospitals with 37.4% accredited through ACHS and 34.0% through Global Mark Pty Ltd.

TABLE 1.8: PRIVATE HOSPITALS, Accreditation/Certification status(a)—at 30 June 2014
	ACHS(b)		Global Mark (c)		Other (d)
	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	All private hospitals
	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Acute and psychiatric hospitals
New South Wales	47	44	26	65	34	57	91
Victoria	55	24	8	71	17	62	79
Queensland	30	26	6	50	25	31	56
South Australia	18	10	0	28	14	14	28
Western Australia	np	np	np	np	np	np	22
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (e)	np	np	np	np	np	np	10
Australia	175	111	42	244	100	186	286
Free-standing day hospital facilities
New South Wales	46	56	32	70	33	69	102
Victoria	22	64	41	45	28	58	86
Queensland	19	33	21	31	15	37	52
South Australia	12	15	10	17	10	17	27
Western Australia	np	np	np	np	np	np	40
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (e)	np	np	np	np	np	np	19
Australia	122	204	111	215	110	216	326
All private hospitals
New South Wales	93	100	58	135	67	126	193
Victoria	77	88	49	116	45	120	165
Queensland	49	59	27	81	40	68	108
South Australia	30	25	10	45	24	31	55
Western Australia	32	30	4	58	28	34	62
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (e)	16	13	5	24	6	23	29
Australia	297	315	153	459	210	402	612
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) Private hospitals can be accredited with more than one organisation. (b) Accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. (c) Accredited by the Global Mark Pty Ltd.. (d) Accreditation or certification with other body. For definition of accredited/certified hospitals, see Glossary. (e) Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories.