National Weighted Activity Unit definition
National Weighted Activity Unit refers to a single “currency” that expresses relative resource use for services funded on an activity basis. It provides a way of comparing and valuing public hospital admissions, emergency department presentations or non-admitted patients service events. For the purposes of this Agreement, NWAU, at any time, means the “National Weighted Activity Unit” as determined by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) and applicable at that time or, where the IHPA (or a successor) no longer determines NWAU or the basis for such determinations is materially changed, an equivalent State measure of health services activity, as adopted by the Ministry, for the purposes of the NSW public health system and advised to the Organisation.
National Weighted Activity Unit or “NWAU” is described as a single “currency” that expresses relative resource use for services funded on an activity basis. It provides a way of comparing and valuing public hospital admissions, emergency department presentations or non-admitted patient service events. For the purposes of this Agreement, the NWAU, or an equivalent State measure of health service activity, as adopted by the Ministry, for the purposes of the NSW Health system and advised to the Organisation, will be used for the purposes of calculating the payments referred to in Schedule 3.
Examples of National Weighted Activity Unit in a sentence
MCH activity is now included in the Tasmanian total National Weighted Activity Unit (NWAU) values for the NHRA payments.