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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 215

Definitions for div 3

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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