Report
Hospital resources 2015–16: Australian hospital statistics
Health services series no.78
Publisher
Hospitals
Public hospitals
Public health
Public health evaluation
Description
In 2015–16, there were 701 public hospitals in Australia accounting for about two-thirds (61,000) of all hospital beds. There were 630 private hospitals with 33,100 hospital beds. Total recurrent expenditure on public hospital services was about $64 billion. About 57% of this was for admitted patient care, 18% for outpatient care, 10% for emergency care services, 2% for teaching, training and research and 13% for all other services.
Publication Details
Copyright:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017
License type:
CC BY
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
7 Jul 2017
