HOSPITAL CLASSIFICATION

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CLASSIFICATION

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General Hospitals (mainly acute)

Teaching hospitals - major teaching hospitals covering a full range of services and with special units.

Large general hospitals - general hospitals with some teaching units, usually over 250 average staffed beds.

General hospitals - mixed specialist hospitals (may have maternity units). Consultant type surgery undertaken, usually
250 and under average staffed beds.

Sick children's hospitals - large teaching hospitals for children covering a range of medicine and surgery.

Long Stay Hospitals

Long stay hospitals (over 100 average staffed beds) - long stay geriatric units controlled by geriatrician. May be with
young chronic sick unit.

Small long stay hospitals (100 and under average staffed beds) - long stay geriatric units controlled by geriatrician. May
be with young chronic sick unit.

Long stay/acute hospitals - long stay geriatric units with some medical and surgical services.

Long stay/psychiatric hospitals - long stay geriatric units with geriatric psychiatry.

Geriatric day hospitals.

Mental Hospitals
Teaching mental illness hospitals with major teaching or research units.

Large mental illness hospitals with over 250 average staffed beds, may have some teaching element.

Mental illness hospitals with 250 and under average staffed beds.

Mental illness day hospitals.

Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities Hospitals

Large learning disabilities hospitals (over 150 average staffed beds).

Learning disabilities hospitals (150 and under average staffed beds).

Learning disabilities day hospitals.

Maternity Hospitals

Dental Hospitals

Other

Other - Miscellaneous hospitals in which function and/or costs are not comparable with other hospitals.

Other - New/Closed Locations - Hospitals subject to cost but in the process of retraction or closure (may include new
hospitals with costs for part year).
Clinics

Hospital Clinics
Non-Hospital Clinics

Community Hospitals