Definition
The costs measured in Australian dollars of all domestic services including electricity, other fuel and power, domestic services for staff, accommodation and kitchen expenses but not including salaries and wages, food costs or equipment replacement and repair costs, for a financial year.
Components
Data Element (this item)
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Data Element ConceptEstablishment—recurrent expenditure (domestic services)
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Object ClassEstablishment
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PropertyRecurrent expenditure
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Value DomainTotal Australian currency N[N(8)]
Representation
This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Total Australian currency N[N(8)] ".Data Type | Currency |
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Format | N[N(8)] |
Maximum character length | 9 |
Comments
Guide for use:
Record values up to hundreds of millions of dollars. Rounded to the nearest whole dollar.
Gross expenditure should be reported with no revenue offsets, except for inter-hospital transfers.
Origin:
National Health Data Committee
Comments:
The possibility of separating fuel, light and power from domestic services which would bring the overall non-salary recurrent expenditure categories closer to the old Hospitals and Allied Services Advisory Council categories was briefly considered by the Resources Working Party but members did not hold strong views in this area.