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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 215
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.
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