Aussie hospitals improving
March 1, 2013
IN 2012, 65.5% of patients
presenting to a public hospital
emergency department in Australia
had their visits to the emergency
department completed in four
hours or less, according to the
latest Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare (AIHW) report.
The paper looks at the extent to
which states and territories are
improving performance and have
met targets specified in the
National Partnership Agreement on
Improving Public Hospital Services
in 2012.
In 2012 there were almost
671,000 hospital admissions in
Australia from public hospital
elective surgery waiting lists, as
either an elective or an emergency
admission.
Median waiting times ranged
from 27 days in Qld to 55 in the ACT.
According to the report,
Queensland, Western Australia,
South Australia, Tasmania and the
ACT achieved higher proportions (in
ternms of meeting targets) than
their 2009-10 baseline percentages.
Despite this, WA was the only state
to achieve a proportion greater than
its 2012 emergency access target.
The report also found that last
year NSW, Vic, WA, SA and the ACT
provided treatment or referral to
the top 10% of most overdue patients in each urgency category
who were waiting at the end of
2011.
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