Establishment—number of occasions of service, total N[NNNNNN]

Guide for use:

The following guides for use apply:

• an occasion of service is counted for each person attending in the capacity of a patient in their own right, even if other non-patient persons are present for the service.
• spouses, parents or carers attending the session are only counted if they are also participating in the service as a patient.
• in the instance of a dependent child presenting to a clinic, the session is counted as a single Occasion of Service provided to the individual child for whom an event history is being recorded. Where parents/carers also attend in the capacity of patients themselves within a booked appointment, and receive the same services at the same time, the child and parent/carer can be counted as a group. In this instance a Group Session count would be recorded.
• An occasion of service is counted for staff attending clinics of public hospitals only if they are attending as patients in their own right. Staff education and training is excluded.
• Patients attending for treatment at a dialysis or a chemotherapy clinic are receiving individual services. Patients attending education sessions at chemotherapy or dialysis clinics are counted as group sessions, if two or more people receiving the same services at the same time.