This report shows the National Health Reform (NHR) payments made by the Commonwealth and Victoria to Ballarat Health Services for November 2012 as part of the National Health Reform Agreement.
A local hospital network (LHN) is an organisation that provides public hospital services in accordance with the National Health Reform Agreement (the Agreement). A local hospital network can contain one or more hospitals, and is usually defined as a business group, geographical area or community. Every Australian public hospital is part of a local hospital network.
Note: Local hospital networks also receive funding from other sources, including the Commonwealth, states and territories, and third parties for the provision of other specific functions and services outside the scope of the Agreement, for example, dental services, primary care, home and community care, residential aged care and pharmaceuticals. For further information on total funding to a particular local hospital network, contact the Victorian Department of Health to view the service agreement for that local hospital network.
The data in this report can be viewed in conjunction with information shown on the website: MyHospitals (external link, opens in a new window) [http://www.myhospitals.gov.au] which provides information on hospitals throughout Australia.
The financial information outlined in the following report represents NHR payments. NHR payments are when NHR funding is deposited into a state pool account or state managed fund and is paid out of the state pool account by the Administrator, or is paid out of state managed fund by the state.
For the basis of NHR payments, see the Basis for National Health Reform payments explanation in the Victorian report for November 2012, see Victorian report, November 2012.
This table shows the NHR payments made by Victoria and the Commonwealth to Ballarat Health Services by service category and contribution for November 2012.
The data is divided into service category and associated Commonwealth and state contribution for each amount. For further information on total funding to a particular local hospital network, contact the Victorian Department of Health to view the service agreement for that local hospital network.
Following on from table 1a, this table shows the year-to-date (YTD) NHR payments made by Victoria and the Commonwealth to Ballarat Health Services as at November 2012.
Total ABF payments (Pool) represents NHR payments made by the Administrator from the state pool account to the local hospital network (LHN).
Total Block payments (SMF) represents NHR payments made by the state from the state managed fund (SMF) to the local hospital network.
Note: The grey shaded areas in the table above reflect that block payments made to local hospital networks cannot at this stage be identified by source of funding (state or Commonwealth) when paid from state managed funds.
Payments in these tables are GST exclusive. The majority of government funding to local hospital networks is not subject to GST. However in some cases, hospital funding to non-government entities does attract GST, for example, denominational hospitals, privately and commercially owned health facilities, or any other non-government third party provider of health services or related supplies.
This table shows the estimated activity for activity based funding services expressed as National Weighted Activity Units (NWAU) for November 2012, the associated cumulative year-to-date (YTD) NWAU, and the total estimated annual NWAU for Ballarat Health Services.
The estimated annual NWAU for Ballarat Health Services was provided to the Administrator as a basis for determining Commonwealth NHR activity based funding. Current month NWAU estimates accumulate through the year-to-date (YTD) NWAU to equal the annual NWAU at the end of the financial year.
* Victoria has advised that service agreements with local hospital networks for 2012-13 do not set separate NHR service category budgets.
For more information on the NWAU explanation and basis, see National Health Reform Reporting.