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Administrative healthcare provider-health service district abbreviation
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Identifier & Version
QH 041537 v2
Metadata Item Type
Data Element
Data Element Type
Data Element
Approval Status
Current
01-Jul-2009
Superseded
31-Oct-2010
Approval Type
Standard
Approving Authority
Effective From
01-Jul-2009
Effective To
31-Oct-2010
Definition
An area of the state, a public sector hospital or other public sector health service facility as constituted in the Health Services Act 1991 for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness and responsiveness of the governance arrangements for the delivery of public health services, as represented by an acronym.
Context
Queensland Health
Short Name
Health service district abbreviation
Name in Other Contexts
Representational Attributes
Datatype
Alphabetic
Representation Class
Text
Format
A(3)
Minimum Character Length
3
Maximum Character Length
3
Permissible Values
Permissible_values
Code
Description
CAH
Cairns and Hinterland
CHS
Children's Health Services
CTQ
Central Queensland
CTW
Central West
CYK
Cape York
DWM
Darling Downs-West Moreton
GOL
Gold Coast
MAC
Mackay
MNT
Metro North
MST
Metro South
MTI
Mt Isa
STW
South West
SWB
Sunshine Coast-Wide Bay
TNP
Torres Strait-Northern Peninsula
TVL
Townsville
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Comments
As a result of the introduction of the Mater Public Health Services Act 2008, which came into effect on 25th November 2008, health service district for the three Mater public hospitals (Mater Adult Hospital, Mater Children's Hospital and Mater Mothers' Hospital) changed from "MTR Mater Public Hospitals" to the physical location of the hospitals, "MST Metro South" on 1st July 2009.
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Data Element
Administrative healthcare provider-health service district abbreviation
QH 041537 Version 1
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Data Element
Administrative healthcare provider-health service district abbreviation
QH 041537 Version 3
Superseded
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Data Element
Administrative healthcare provider-health service district code
QH 040192 Version 5
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Source Organisation
Source Document
Health Services Act 1991
Keywords
Health service area
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Health service district
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