Victoria - Public Hospitals and Mental Health Services
Policy and Funding Guidelines 2002 - 2003

Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia

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Quality Framework Business Rules 2002- 03 (PDF File 708 KB)

Download Section A - (PDF File 376KB) (Word File 665KB)

Section A - Policy contains:

Message from the Minister

1 Highlights of the 2002-2003 Policy

2 Strategic Directions and Policy Outcomes

2.1 Policy Outcomes
2.2 Activity Trends
2.3 Victorian Budget Details
2.4 Funding Intensive Care
2.5 Quality of Care
2.6 Mental Health Services
2.7 Nursing Workforce
2.8 Pharmaceutical Reform
2.9 Capital, Equipment and New Technology
2.10 Metropolitan Health Strategy
2.11 Rural Human Services Strategy
2.12 Occupational Health & Safety Improvement Strategy for the Victorian Budget Sector
2.13 TAC Patients

3 Managing Demand and Improving Access

3.1 Metropolitan Hospital Demand Management and Access
3.2 Prevention and Continuity of Care

4 Major Rural and Regional Initiatives

4.1 A Strengthened Policy Focus
4.2 Self-Sufficient, Sustainable Services
4.3 Supporting Service Innovation
4.4 Filling Service Gaps

5 Summary of 2002 - 2003 Public Hospital Payment Rates

6 Hospital Activity and Throughput Targets

6.1 Hospital Activity Targets
6.2 Recall Adjustment
6.3 Metropolitan and Rural Inpatient Activity Targets
6.4 Same Day Caps
6.5 Published Rates
6.6 Service Agreements

7 Mental Health Services

7.1 Mental Health Policy and Planning
7.2 Funding and Budget Overview
7.3 Future Directions

8 Quality of Care

8.1 Quality Framework
8.2 Clinical Governance
8.3 Performance Reporting
8.4 Best Practice
8.5 Consumer Involvement and Information

9 Service Development

9.1 Breast Care
9.2 Trauma
9.3 Maternity Services

10 Sub-Acute Services

10.1 Service Profile
10.2 Funding of Sub-Acute Services: Inpatients
10.3 Funding of Sub-Acute Services: In Home and Community
10.4 Palliative Care Services
10.5 Interim Care

11 Emergency Services and Non-Admitted Patients Funding

11.1 Non-Admitted Emergency Patient Funding
11.2 Outpatients - Victorian Ambulatory Classification System
11.3 Non-Admitted Patient Radiotherapy

12 Research/Training & Development

12.1 Research Funding
12.2 Training and Development

13 Special Grants

13.1 Continuous Positive Airways Pressure, Home Enteral Nutrition and the Victorian Artificial Limbs Programs
13.2 Higher Payments for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Patients
13.3 Mechanical Ventilation Co-Payment
13.4 Colonoscopy Co-payment
13.5 Aortic Abdominal Aneurism (AAA) Stent Co-payment
13.6 Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Closure Devices Co-payment
13.7 Thalassaemia
13.8 Victorian Maintenance Dialysis Program
13.9 Cystic Fibrosis

14 Development of the Cost Weights and WIES

14.1 AR-DRG Version 4.2
14.2 Development of Cost Weights
14.3 Calculation of Inlier Boundaries: Trim Points
14.4 Calculation of Inlier Boundaries: Impact on costs
14.5 Same Day DRGs
14.6 Calculation of Inlier Weights
14.7 High Outliers
14.8 Prostheses Adjustments
14.9 Private Patient Adjustments

15 Hospital Activity Data Standards and Quality

15.1 PRS2 and related monitoring systems
15.2 Activity monitoring and standard reporting
15.3 Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) Audit

Table 1: Acute Health Model Budgets 2001/2002 and 2002/2003
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Table 2: Acute Health Non-Admitted Patient Grant Initial Model Budgets VACS Funded Hospitals, 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 (Excel File 49KB)

Table 3: Mental Health Model Budgets 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 (Excel File 43KB)

Table 1 2002-2003 WIES Targets (WIES10)
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Table 2: 2001-2002 Targets (WIES10) (For Information)
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Table 3: 2001-2002 Targets (WIES9) (For Information) (Excel File 44KB)

Table 4: VACS Throughput Targets 2002-2003 (Excel File 20KB)

Table 5: Sub-Acute Throughput Targets 2002-2003: Beddays and Weighted Units (Excel File 32KB)

Appendix 1 - Consultation and Liaison
Appendix 2 - Activity Trends
Appendix 3 - Identified Savings (Excel File 35 KB)
Appendix 4 - Mental Health Funded Activities By Output
Appendix 5 - Clinical Risk Management
Appendix 6 - Non Admitted Emergency Services Grant
Appendix 7 - Training and Development Grant
Appendix 8 - Cost Weight Modelling (Nurses EBA)
Appendix 9 - Clinical Indicators
Download Appendices 1 to 9 (excludes Appendix 3) (Word File 466KB) (PDF File 727KB)

Conditions of funding (PDF File 235KB) (Word File 400KB)

Current Cost Weights - Admitted Patients (Excel File 189KB)
Current Cost Weights - Victorian Ambulatory Classification and Funding System (VACS)
Current Cost Weights - VicRehab
Calculation of WIES
Mechanical Ventilation Severity Co-payment Eligibility
Calculation of Rehabilitation Weighted Units (CRAFT)
Hospital Activity and WIES Report (Excel File 32KB)
CRAFT Funded Hospitals Rehabilitation Report (Excel File 28KB)
Regional Contacts

Download Section C (PDF File 92KB) (Word File 251KB)

Updated 20 December 2002