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Framework Funding Business Rules
Download Section A - 
(PDF File 497KB) 
(Word File 583KB)
Section A - Policy contains:
Message from the Ministers
1 Highlights of the 2001-2002 Policy
2 Strategic Directions
2.1 Major Objectives
2.2 Activity Trends
2.3 Victorian Budget Details
2.4 Hospital Demand Management Strategy
2.5 Nurse Workforce
2.6 Funding Intensive Care
2.7 Capital Funding
2.8 Equipment, Infrastructure and New Technology Funding
2.9 Improving Patient Safety: Clinical Risk Management Funding
2.10 VicRehab
2.11 Quality Fund
2.12 Pharmaceutical Reform
2.13 DVA Patients
3 Improving Services to Rural Communities
3.1 Nurturing and Sustaining Small and Medium Health Services
3.2 Targeting Service Gaps
3.3 Rebuilding the Rural Health Workforce
3.4 Building For the Future
3.5 Rural Patient Waiting List Initiatives
3.6 Rural Specialist Services Grants
3.7 Continuing Medical Education
3.8 Rural and Isolated Hospitals
3.9 Increased Flexibility for Small Rural Hospitals
3.10 Flexible Service Arrangements (Healthstreams)
3.11 Multi-Purpose Services (MPS)
3.12 Other Rural Initiatives
4 Summary of 2001-2002 Payment Rates
5 Hospital Activity and Throughput Targets
5.1 Hospital Activity Targets
5.2 Recall Adjustment
5.3 Metropolitan and Regional Inpatient Activity Targets
5.4 Same Day Caps
5.5 Published Rates
5.6 Service Agreements
6 Improving Hospital Demand Management
6.1 Sub-Acute and Interim Care
6.2 Care Coordination and Change Management
6.3 Emergency Department Enhancement
6.4 Substitution
6.5 Prevention
6.6 Monitoring and Review
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Quality Framework Funding Business Rules
(PDF File 2.59 MB) Commencing 1 July
2001 a Quality Framework is being introduced to assist the evaluation
of health service performance with respect to quality. This framework
allows for performance reporting and monitoring across health
care dimensions and consolidates quality improvement programs
and initiatives previously managed on an individual program basis.
This Quality Framework describes the performance indicators, reporting
requirements and quality funding for health services and should
be considered together with the Victoria – Public Hospitals
Policy and Funding Guidelines 2001 – 2002.
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7 Quality Improvement: A New Approach
7.1 The Quality Framework
7.2 Performance Monitoring and Reporting
7.3 Quality Indicators
7.4 Quality Fund - Metropolitan Health Services
7.5 Allocation of Quality Funds
7.6 Redistribution of Retained Quality Funds
7.7 Quality Funding - Regional and Rural Health Services
7.8 Same Day Incentives
8 Specific Quality Programs
8.1 Accreditation
8.2 Clinical Indicators
8.3 Improving Safety
8.4 Improving Effectiveness
8.5 Improving Continuity
9 Improving Rehabilitation and Sub-Acute Services
9.1 Service Profile
9.2 Funding of Sub-Acute Services: Inpatients
9.3 Funding of Sub-Acute Services: In Home and the Community
10 Health Services working with their Communities
10.1 Metropolitan Health Services Community Advisory Committees
10.2 Primary Care and Population Health Advisory Committees
10.3 Reporting to the Community on Quality of Care
10.4 Patient Experience
10.5 Provision of Consumer Information
11 Service Development
11.1 Trauma
11.2 Breast Care Redevelopment
12 Emergency Services and Non-Admitted Patients Funding
12.1 Non-Admitted Emergency Patient Funding
12.2 Outpatients - Victorian Ambulatory Classification System
12.3 Non-Admitted Patient Radiotherapy
13 Research/Training & Development
13.1 Research Funding
13.2 Training and Development
14 Major Initiatives in Information Technology
14.1 Replacement of Homer patient administration systems
14.2 I2T2 Strategy Funding
14.3 Growing Victoria - Information Infrastructure
14.4 Change Management Education and Training (CMET)
14.5 Clinicians Health Channel
14.6 Designing Care
15 Special Grants
15.1 Removal of Capped Block Grants
15.2 Higher Payment for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Patients
15.3 Mechanical Ventilation Co-Payment
15.4 Thalessaemia
15.5 Cystic Fibrosis
15.6 Victorian Maintenance Dialysis Program (VMDP)
16 Development of the Cost Weights and WIES
16.1 AR-DRG Version 4.2
16.2 Development of Cost Weights
16.3 Calculation of Inlier Boundaries: Trim Points
16.4 Same Day DRGs
16.5 Calculation of Inlier Weights
16.6 High Outliers
16.7 Prostheses Adjustments
16.8 Private Patient Adjustments
16.9 Changes to Mechanical Ventilation Co-payments
16.10 Data Quality & the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED)
| Section A–Modelled Budgets |
Table 1: Acute Health Model Budgets 2000/2001 and 2001/2002
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Table 2: Acute Health Non-Admitted Patient Grant Initial Model Budgets
VACS Funded Hospitals, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 
(Excel File 47KB)
Table 3: Sub-Acute Admitted Services Budget for 2001/2002
(Excel File 35KB)
Table 1 2001-2002 WIES Targets (WIES9)
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Table 2: 2000-2001 Targets (WIES9) (For Information)
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Table 3: 2000-2001 Recuurent Targets (WIES8) (For Information)
(Excel File 71KB)
Table 4: VACS Throughput Targets 2001/2002
(Excel File 19KB)
Table 5: Sub-Acute Throughput Targets 2001/2002
(Excel File 31KB)
Appendix 1 - Consultation and Liaison
Appendix 2 - Activity Trends
Appendix 3 - VicRehab: Weighted Units Specification
Appendix 4 - Quality Fund
Appendix 5 -Clinical Risk Management
Download Appendices 1 to 5
(Word File 249KB)
Appendix 6 - Identified Savings
(Excel File 31KB)
| Section B–Conditions of Funding |
Conditions of funding
(PDF File 924KB)
(Word File 389KB)
Health Service Agreement Schedule 1 2001-2002
(Word File 75KB)
| Section C–Supplementary Information |
Current Cost Weights - Inpatients
(Excel File 206KB)
Current Cost Weights - Victorian Ambulatory Classification and Funding
System (VACS)
Current Cost Weights - VicRehab
Calculation of WIES
IES9 and Related Items Report
(Word File 29KB)
IES9 and Related Items Reports Proforma
(Excel File 74KB)
Mechanical Ventilation Severity Co-payment Eligibility
Regional Contacts
Download Section C
Does not include above Excel and Word Files
(PDF File 419KB)
(Word File 119KB)
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