Health industry relevant organisation type code NNN

Guide for use:

Main Health Care Service organisation

CODE 101 Hospital – public

A health care facility established under Commonwealth, state or territory legislation as a hospital or a free-standing day procedure unit, and authorised to provide treatment and/or care to patients.

Comprises all health care facilities that are reported as public hospitals to the Public Hospital Establishments National Minimum Data Set (PHE NMDS). This includes organisations such as rehabilitation hospitals; psychiatric hospitals; mothercraft hospitals; and hospices and multi-purpose services defined as hospitals. The list of public hospitals reported to the PHE NMDS is available at www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm in the Australian Hospital Statistics annual report.

NOTE 1: Excludes providers of services where those providers are not captured in the hospital financial statements. For example, the provider of a pathology or pharmacy service may be co-located within the hospital, but as a private service, and will pay the hospital for use of the site. The provider of this service should be recorded under codes 106 to 112.

CODE 102 Hospital – private (excluding private free-standing day hospital facilities)

A health care facility established under Commonwealth, state or territory legislation as a hospital or a free-standing day procedure unit, and authorised to provide treatment and/or care to patients.

Is derived from the Object class 'Hospital' and 'Hospital–public' Code 101 above.

Comprises hospitals that are NOT reporting to the PHE NMDS.

NOTE: State and territory data providers are to refer to the GHE NMDS Collection Guidelines for instructions on how to report expenditure for this category.

Excludes private free-standing day hospital facilities reported under code 103.

CODE 103 Hospital - private free-standing day facility (excluding private non free-standing day hospital facilities)

A private free-standing day hospital facility provides investigation and treatment for acute conditions on a day-only basis and is approved by the Commonwealth as a hospital for the purposes of private health insurance benefits. The four main types of private free-standing day hospitals are specialist endoscopy, opthalmic, plastic/cosmetic and general. Excludes private non free-standing day hospital facilities reported under code 102.

CODE 104 Residential facility – mental health care

Specialised mental health facilities primarily engaged in providing residential care to persons requiring mental health diagnosis and treatment combined with either nursing, supervisory or other types of care as required (including medical) by the residents.

Includes all government-funded residential mental health care services in Australia, except those residential care services that are in receipt of funding under the Aged Care Actand subject to Commonwealth reporting requirements (i.e. reporting to the System for the payment of Aged Residential Care (SPARC) collection). These should not be reported in this NMDS.

Also excludes residential care facilities primarily providing care or care for persons requiring treatment for alcohol or other substance abuse or persons with a disability.

CODE 105 Residential facility – other

Includes all government-funded facilities primarily engaged in providing residential care to persons requiring diagnosis and treatment for alcohol and other substance abuse combined with either nursing, supervisory or other types of care as required (including medical) by the residents. Includes hospices that are not defined as hospitals and respite and transitional care services.

Excludes facilities primarily providing services to persons requiring mental health diagnosis and treatment or facilities in receipt of funding under the Aged Care Act and subject to Commonwealth reporting requirements (i.e. report to the System for the payment of Aged Residential Care (SPARC) collection).

Also excludes residential care facilities that report under the Commonwealth, State and Territory Disability Agreement where the primary purpose is care for persons with a disability.

CODE 106 Provider of ambulance service

Organisations primarily engaged in providing transportation of patients by ground or air, along with health (or medical) care. These services are often provided during a medical emergency but are not restricted to emergencies. The vehicles are usually equipped with lifesaving equipment operated by medically trained personnel. Includes organisations providing public ambulance services or flying doctor services such as Royal Flying Doctor Service and Care Flight, and support programs to assist isolated patients with travel to obtain specialised health care.

NOTE 2: Excludes providers of services where those providers are captured in public or private hospital financial statements. For example, the provider of an ambulance, general practice, specialist medical, dental or other health practitioner service, or a medical or diagnostic laboratory, may be located within a hospital set of accounts and its expenditure recorded on the hospital financial statement. The provider of the ambulance or other service would then be recorded under codes 101 to 103.

CODE 107 Medical and diagnostic laboratory

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations primarily engaged in providing analytic or diagnostic services, including body fluid analysis and diagnostic imaging, generally to the medical profession or the patient on referral from a health practitioner. Includes diagnostic imaging centres; dental or medical X-ray laboratories ultrasound services; medical testing laboratories; medical pathology laboratories; medical forensic laboratories; and X-ray clinic services. Includes public and private medical and diagnostic laboratories.

See NOTE 2 under code 106.

CODE 108 Clinical practices – medical – general

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations of registered medical practitioners holding the degree of a doctor of medicine or a qualification at a corresponding level primarily engaged in the independent practice of general medicine. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centres, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or medical centres.

Excludes General practitioner plus centres and multi-speciality community clinics reported under code 115.

See NOTE 2 under code 106.

CODE 109 Clinical practices – medical – specialist

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations of registered medical practitioners holding the degree of a doctor of medicine or a qualification at a corresponding level primarily engaged in the independent practice of specialist medicine or surgery, other than pathology and diagnostic imaging services. These practitioners operate a wide range of specialities in private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centres, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or health maintenance type medical centres. Includes for example:

• Anaesthetist service
• Dermatology service
• Ear, nose and throat specialist service
• Gynaecology service
• Neurology service
• Obstetrics service
• Paediatric service
• Psychiatry service
• Specialist medical clinic service
• Specialist surgical service

See NOTE 2 under code 106.

CODE 110 Clinical practices – medical – other

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Includes physicians not able to be allocated to Codes 108 or 109.

CODE 111 Clinical practices – dental

Organisations of registered health practitioners holding the degree of Doctor of dental medicine or a qualification at a corresponding level primarily engaged in the independent practice of general or specialised dentistry or dental surgery. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centres, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals, medical centres or community health facilities. They can provide either comprehensive preventive, cosmetic, or emergency care, or specialise in a single field of dentistry. Also included are dental hospitals providing ambulatory type services only. Includes for example:

• Cleft lip and palate services
• Community dental service
• Dental assessment and treatment
• Dental hospital (out-patient)
• Dental practice service
• Dental practitioner service
• Dental surgery service
• Endodontic service
• Oral and maxillofacial services
• Oral pathology service
• Oral surgery service
• Orthodontic service
• Pedodontic service
• Periodontic service

See NOTE 2 under code 106.

CODE 112 Clinical practices – other

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations of independent health practitioners (other than physicians and dentists), such as chiropractors, optometrists, mental health specialists, physical, occupational, and speech therapists and audiologists organisations primarily engaged in providing ambulatory health care. These practitioners operate private or group practices in their own offices (e.g., centres, clinics) or in the facilities of others, such as hospitals or medical centres. Includes for example:

• Acupuncture service
• Aromatherapy service
• Audiology service
• Chiropractic service
• Clinical psychology service
• Dental hygiene service
• Dietician service
• Hearing aid dispensing
• Homoeopathic service
• Midwifery service
• Naturopathic service
• Nursing service
• Occupational therapy service
• Optometrist
• Osteopathic service
• Podiatry service
• Speech pathology service
• Therapeutic massage service

See NOTE 2 under code 106.

CODE 113 Community health facility – substance abuse

Organisations with health staff primarily engaged in providing ambulatory services related to the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol and other substance abuse. These are community-based organisations that treat patients who do not require admitted patient treatment. They may provide counselling staff and information regarding a wide range of substance abuse issues and/or refer patients to more extensive treatment programmes, if necessary. Includes for example:

• Community based alcoholism treatment centres and clinics (other than hospitals or residential care facilities);
• Community based detoxification centres and clinics (other than hospitals or residential care facilities);
• Community based drug addiction treatment centres and clinics (other than hospitals or residential care facilities);
• Community based substance abuse treatment centres and clinics (other than hospitals or residential care facilities).

CODE 114 Community health facility – mental

Specialised mental health services or facilities with health staff primarily engaged in providing ambulatory services related to the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. These specialised mental health services generally treat patients who do not require admitted patient treatment. However, these services do include consultation/liaison services provided to admitted patients by community mental health services. They may provide counselling staff and information regarding a wide range of mental health issues and/or refer patients to more extensive treatment programmes, if necessary. They may also provide treatment both on and off site, for example through mobile units. Includes only government-funded specialised mental health services, such as community mental health centres and clinics.

Ideally, we would want to collect all expenditure by government-funded community specialised mental health services, including non-government services or facilities in receipt of government funding, however the Community Mental Health Care NMDS does not collect data from these non-government services.

Therefore, for now we will only be including expenditure on government-managed community specialised mental health services, plus the cost of the grants to non-government organisations that provide community specialised mental health services, not the total expenditure by these non-government organisations.

Excludes mental health clinics in hospitals and residential mental health care facilities.

CODE 115 Community health facility – other

Organisations with health staff primarily engaged in providing general or specialised ambulatory care. Centres or clinics of medical or health practitioners with the same degree or with different degrees from more than one speciality practising within the same organisations i.e., physician and dentist) are included in this item. Includes only government-funded community health facilities such as:

• Community centres and clinics;
• General practitioner plus centres;
• Multi-speciality community clinics.

Excludes clinical practices that provide exclusively medical services or exclusively health services, ambulatory mental health and substance abuse centres, and free-standing ambulatory surgical centres (reported under codes 108 to 114) and kidney dialysis centres and clinics (reported under codes 101 to 103 if part of a hospital or code 109 if they are free-standing ambulatory centres).

CODE 116 Blood and organ bank

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations primarily engaged in collecting, storing and distributing blood and blood products and storing and distributing body organs.

CODE 117 Retail sale/supplier of medical goods – optical glasses and other vision products

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations primarily engaged in the retail sale of optical glasses and other vision products to the general public for personal or household consumption or utilisation. This includes the fitting and repair provided in combination with sales of optical glasses and other vision products.

Excludes organisations primarily engaged in providing optometric services.

CODE 118 Retail sale/supplier of medical goods – hearing aids

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations primarily engaged in the sale of hearing aids to the general public for personal or household consumption or utilisation. This includes the fitting and repair provided in combination with the sale of hearing aids.

Excludes organisations primarily engaged in hearing testing where that also includes a component of hearing aid dispensing and fitting.

CODE 119 Retail sale/supplier of medical goods – dispensing community pharmacist

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations primarily engaged in the retail sale of pharmaceuticals to the general public for personal or household consumption or utilisation. Instances when the processing of medicine may be involved should be only incidental to selling. This includes both medicines with and without prescription.

Excludes organisations listed under code 201.

CODE 120 Retail sale/supplier of medical goods – other

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations primarily engaged in the sale of medical appliances other than optical goods and hearing aids to the general public with or without prescription for personal or household consumption or utilisation. Included are:

• Organisations primarily engaged in the manufacture of medical appliances but where the fitting and repair is usually done in combination with manufacture of medical appliances.
• Organisations engaged in the retail sale of other miscellaneous medical goods to the general public for personal or household consumption or utilisation (included are sales other than by shops, such as electronic shopping and mail-order houses).
• Illustrative examples
• sale of fluids (e.g. for home dialysis);
• all other miscellaneous health and personal care stores;
• all other sale of pharmaceuticals and medical goods;
• electronic shopping and mail-order houses specialised in medical goods.

CODE 121 Public health program and /or administration service provider

Government or private administration and provision of public health programs such as health promotion, organised screening, immunisation and health protection programs.

CODE 122 General health administration service provider

Organisations primarily engaged in the regulation of activities of agencies that provide health care, overall administration of health policy, and health insurance. This item comprises government administration (excluding social security) primarily engaged in the formulation and administration of government policy in health and in the setting and enforcement of standards for medical and paramedical personnel and for hospitals, clinics, etc., including the regulation and licensing of providers of health services. For example:

• Department of Health;
• Agencies for the regulation of safety in the workplace.

Excludes organisations primarily engaged in the provision and administration of public health programs which is reported under code 121.

CODE 123 Private health insurance

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Organisations engaged in insurance of health (other than social security funds and other social insurance funds) who provide insurance cover for hospital, medical, dental, pharmaceutical or funeral expenses. This includes organisations primarily engaged in activities involved in or closely related to the management of private health insurance (activities of insurance agents, average and loss adjusters and actuaries.

CODE 188 Other Main Health Care Services organisation

Organisations mainly engaged in providing health care services that are not reported under codes 101 to 123. Includes health or health-related call centres or e-health sites such as Poisons Information Centre and centres that provide information on alcohol and other drugs, mental health or other health issues.

CODE 198 Regional health service not further defined

Organisations at an area health service or regional level that could be a combination of categories 101 to 188 but which could not be further disaggregated.

CODE 199 State/territory health authority not further defined

Organisations at the state or territory health authority level that could be a combination of categories 101 to 188 but which could not be further disaggregated.

Secondary/non-Health Care Services organisation

CODE 201 Pharmaceutical industry

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities

Organisations primarily engaged in wholesaling human pharmaceuticals, medicines, cosmetics, perfumes and toiletries. Also included are units mainly engaged in wholesaling veterinary drugs or medicines.

Excludes organisations listed under code 119.

CODE 202 University

Organisations primarily engaged in providing undergraduate or postgraduate teaching but which also undertake health research activities. Also includes organisations primarily engaged in undertaking research in the agricultural, biological, physical or social sciences. Units may undertake the research for themselves or others.

Includes:

• Postgraduate school, university operation
• Research school, university operation
• Specialist institute or college
• Undergraduate school, university operation
• University operation

For reporting purposes include only the health or health related research component of these providers' activities.

CODE 203 Non-health related insurance

This item is not currently required to be reported by state and territory health authorities.

Units mainly engaged in providing general insurance cover (except life and health insurance).

Includes:

• Motor vehicle third party insurance provision
• Worker’s compensation insurance provision

CODE 288 Other Secondary/non-Health Care Services organisation

This item comprises industries that are not reported under codes 201 to 203 which provide health care as secondary providers or other providers. Included are providers of occupational health care and home care provided by private households.

Includes:

Occupational health care services not provided in separate health care establishments (all industries);

• Military health services not provided in separate health care establishments
• Prison health services not provided in separate health care establishments
• School health services
• Other organisations n.e.c.

Other providers of services which support the health care industry such as laundry or catering services.

Other providers of services unrelated to the health care industry such as the building or automotive industry.