Hospitals
Non-admitted patient care
Every year many Australians receive services as a hospital outpatient in non-admitted patient clinics. These services are often associated with an emergency or admitted patient episode for which diagnostic or follow-up care is required without needing the person to be admitted to hospital.
The types of care provided include consultations with specialist medical practitioners, the provision of diagnostic or other procedures, and allied health or clinical nurse specialist services.
In 2024–25:
Sources: NNAPC(agg)D and NNAPC(el)D
Almost 44 million non-admitted patient care service events were provided in 2024–25
In 2024–25, 43.6 million non-admitted patient care service events were provided in public hospitals. Of these service events:
- nearly half were provided in Allied health and/or clinical nurse specialist intervention clinics (52%, 22.7 million service events)
- around one-third were provided in Medical consultation clinics (32%, 14.1 million service events)
- over 7 in 8 (88%) were funded by other sources categorised as Other funding (including where the funding source was reported as Health service budget).
Of the 39.6 million episode-level service events recorded in 2024–25 where further patient information was available:
- over 1 in 2 (54%) services were provided to females
- over 1 in 20 (6.7%) services were provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people.