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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Major Cities Inner Regional Outer Regional Remote /Very Remote

Separations – with specialist psychiatric care

Separations – without specialist psychiatric care

Ambulatory equivalent separations - with specialist psychiatric care

Ambulatory equivalent separations – without specialist psychiatric care

Figure 2.2. Hospital-based mental health service provision by remoteness area, 2011– 2012. Source: AIHW, 2013c.

Table 2.12 Hospital-Based Mental Health Service Provision by Remoteness Area, per 1,000 Population, 2011 – 2012 (Source: AIHW, 2013c*)

Major Cities

Inner Regional

Outer Regional

Remote/ Very Remote

6.5 3.5

6.3 4.2

4.9 5.6

3.3 8.2

Separations—with specialist psychiatric care Separations — without specialist psychiatric care Ambulatory equivalent separations — with specialist psychiatric care Ambulatory equivalent separations — without specialist psychiatric care

6.5

2.3

0.7

0.5

1.1

1.0

3.1

1.4

* Sources: State and Territory (unpublished) community mental healthcare data, Private Mental Health Alliance (unpublished) Centralised Data Management Service data, Department of Health and Ageing (unpublished) MBS Statistics, Department of Veterans’ Affairs (unpublished) Treatment Account System data, Australian Bureau of Statistics (unpublished) Estimated Residential Population, 30 June 2010.