Page 2503 - Week 07 - Monday, 15 August 2022

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6. The following table outlines the number of interstate patients added to Elective Surgery Wait List in the ACT from 1 January 2016 to 30 April 2022.

Year	Number of interstate residents added
2016	4,707
2017	4,664
2018	4,866
2019	5,350
2020	4,934
2021	5,542
2022	1,623

7. The following table outlines the median time wait time for interstate patients to be removed from waiting lists in the ACT from 1 January 2016 to 30 April 2022

ESWL Urgency	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
1	16	18	17	17	15	15	16
2	63	59	58	62	74	76	90
3	237	211	266	209	235	207	210

Note: Removal for procedure only

8. The following table outlines the policies and action taken since 2016 to improve median wait times and results.

Year	Policy	Spend $000	Median Wait-time
2016-17	Additional Elective Surgery	$1,300	46
2017-18	Additional Elective Surgery	$6,372	54
2018-19	New funding to equal demand New Urology Services at Calvary	$15,818	48
2019-20	New funding to equal demand New Urology Services at Calvary New Theatre Services Calvary	$16,052 $2,932 $2,179	48
2020-21	New funding to equal demand New Urology Services at Calvary New Theatre Services at Calvary COVID-19 Recovery Elective Surgery	$16,296 $962 $3,302 $22,000	49
2021-22	New funding to equal demand New Urology Services at Calvary New Theatre Services Calvary Rebasing Elective surgery Additional Surgery towards 60,000 over five years Additional Surgery towards 14,800 surgeries for 2020-21	$16,550 $991 $3,461 $439 $5,385 $2,426	N/A

1. Post Covid shutdown of non-urgent elective surgery

Through continued investment, Elective Surgery median wait times have improved or stabilised in the past three years despite the operational impacts of COVID-19 over the last two years

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