SSIC R—Health and social services

Where R sits

1. R Health and social services

Contains 3 narrower codes

• 86 Health services
• 87 Residential care services
• 88 Social services without accommodation

What R includes

• This section includes the provision of health and social work activities. Activities include a wide range of activities, private or public. It includes:
• Health care provided by trained medical professionals in hospitals and other facilities, including outpatient settings
• Residential care activities that still involve a degree of health care activities
• Social work activities without accommodation and any involvement of health care professionals This section also includes social work activities with accommodation, such as temporary homeless shelters.

What R excludes

• Child care centres providing pre-primary education services, see 85100
• Non-medical diet and slimming services, see 96022

R in other systems