WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 215 Definitions for div 3
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 215
Definitions for div 3215 Definitions for div 3
In this division—
"contracted hospital" means a hospital that provides public health services to
a patient under a contractual arrangement with the State, but does not
include—
(a) a public sector hospital under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 ; or
(b) a Mater Misericordiae Public Hospital.
"elective hospitalisation" means hospitalisation involving a treatment or procedure decided on by a worker or the worker’s doctor that is of advantage to the worker, but is not fundamental in the treatment of the worker’s injury.
"hospital" includes a day hospital.
"private hospital" means a hospital to which a worker is admitted as a private patient.
"private patient" means a worker who is a patient of a private doctor at a hospital that is not a contracted hospital.
"public hospital" means a hospital to which a worker is admitted as a public patient.
"public patient" means a patient who is not a private patient.