FOI 26-2889 – Number of private hospitals

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This FOI release contains two tables from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing on declared private hospitals. Table 1 shows the number of declared private hospitals on 30 June each year, rising from 549 in 2017-18 to a peak of 648 in 2023-24, before falling to 633 in 2024-25. Table 2 reports 35,899 private hospital beds in 2024-25, but notes that bed numbers were not stored in the department's data warehouse for earlier years. The notes also warn that these counts are not directly comparable with historical Private Health Establishments Collection figures, which counted all licensed hospitals operating during the year.