Page 916 - Week 03 - Thursday, 2 April 2020

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Canberra Health Services (CHS) and Calvary Public Hospital, Bruce (CPHB) continue to focus on improving the efficiency of the health system. This was evident from the 2017-18 cost results.

Table 1 and 2 summarised below has the 2017-18 average cost information for all activity streams that includes admitted acute, admitted sub and non-acute, Emergency and non-admitted.

• Average cost per separation details summarised for CHS, CPHB, peer group hospitals and combined results for the ACT.

• This information has been sourced from the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority’s (IHPA) benchmarking portal and IHPA Cost report. Pease be advised the benchmarking portal excludes capital expenditure such as depreciation.

Table 1 – CHS - Average cost per Separation, 2017-18

Source: IHPA Benchmarking Portal & IHPA Cost report.

Table 2 – CPHB - Average cost per Separation, 2017-18

Source: IHPA Benchmarking Portal & IHPA Cost report.

The annual national publications from the IHPA and the Productivity Commission (PC) are published at the jurisdiction level and not at health service level.

The 2017-18 cost summary at the jurisdiction level is available on:

• IHPA website published in February 2020 at www.ihpa.gov.au; and

• PC website through Report on Government Services 2020 at www.pc.gov.au.

Table 2 – ACT’s - Average cost per Separation for 2016-17 & 2017-18

Source: IHPA Cost report.

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