| Amounts mostly relate to the fiscal year 1997-98. Teaching grants are generally designed to help cover costs associated with teaching and training activities, as well as to cater for the more complex cases found in teaching hospitals. Research grants are to support infrastructure costs of research. Unless otherwise stated, grants are made directly to hospitals. Data were obtained from the relevant department in each State or Territory.
Australian Capital Territory
Combined teaching and research grant as dollars per full-time equivalent trainee or career medical officer ($32388), accredited registrar ($33373) or salaried hospital medical officer ($34636), first year nurse ($18504) or postgraduate nurse (attending courses - $8792), pathology professional officer ($13830), and class 2 physiotherapy/speech pathology professionalofficer ($13
276).
New South Wales
Research is funded through "Infrastructure funding for research organisations" which is allocated competitively ($11 million); "Targeted research funds" in specific areas; Area health service direct ($18.6 million) and indirect (based on an "Indirect teaching and research severity factor") funding.
Teaching is supported directly ($44 million) and indirectly in a similar way to area health services.
Northern Territory
Only a teaching grant is funded for 1998-99 as dollars per full-time-equivalent medical student ($11952), intern ($16000), resident and non-specialist ($17170), specialist ($18400), student nurse/midwife ($10500), and registered nurse ($1000).
Queensland
The teaching grant is funded as dollars per full-time-equivalent supervised medical student ($246/week), intern/Australian Medical Council doctor ($17277), junior resident ($18
760), senior resident ($20131), registrar/principal house officer ($25
056), senior medical officer/general practitioner/other ($1000), first year registered nurse ($16
800), registered nurse doing course ($10500), enrolled nurse ($1000), other nurse ($1000), allied health staff in first or second year ($10610-$15710), and other allied health professional staff ($1000).
The research grant is to support hospital and hospital- based university research and comprises 50% of total approved research funds received from external funding sources each financial year.
South Australia
The teaching grant is funded as dollars per full-time-equivalent equal to 50% of the base salary of each trainee medical officer, as well as 25% of a senior director's salary
for each trainee supervised, $1000 for each senior medical officer full-time equivalent, and10% of total hospital medical wages for supervision of medical students. For other health professionals it is 5.271% of wages of allied health, pharmacy, scientific and technical staff.
The research grant is to support hospital and hospital-based university research and is 24% of total approved research funds received from external refereed funding sources. There is also a $10 million clinical development grant distributed across all hospitals pro rata, based on numbers of scientific officers and salaried medical officers.
Tasmania
The teaching grant is funded as dollars per full-time equivalent equal to 50% of base salary of each trainee medical officer, as well as 2.5% of a visiting and salaried medical officer's time for supervision of trainees. For other health professionals it is 5% of wages
of allied health, scientific and technical staff. For nurses it is: first year registered nurse ($11
000), registered nurse doing course ($4000), and other nurse ($650).
Research and clinical development grants are block grants to each institution.
Victoria
The teaching and development grant is funded as dollars per full-time-equivalent hospital medical officer years 1-3 ($32964), accredited registrars ($34337), clinical academic staff ($38152), salaried medical officers
($26384), grade 1 registered nurse ($18320), postgraduate
nurses ($9160), pharmacy trainees ($23133), medical radiation interns ($22917), medical biophysics trainees ($12973), physiotherapist/ occupational therapist/speech pathologist in second year ($13
512), and medical laboratory scientist ($11111).In addition hospitals receive 8% of existing outpatient grants.
The research grant is included in this amount.
Western Australia
The teaching, training and research grant has been a fixed 9% of hospital patient costs and will rise to 12% in 1998-99.
|
Casemix: moving forward