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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 6 Hansard (22 June) . . Page.. 1746 ..
Trends for the same period indicate a steady annual increase in all retrievals of about 7%, which is likely to further increase the figure of 66 in coming years.
(3) No elective surgery has been cancelled because of SouthCare patients. Only
23% of these patients have arrived in regular working hours (8am -5pm,
Monday-Friday). 55% of all SouthCare patients coming, to TCH have required immediate (within four hours surgery. Others have required other forms of immediate treatment not necessarily involving immediate surgery. There is staffing at TCH for an emergency and at many times a sub-acute theatre to respond to the continual demand for emergency and urgent operating time and SouthCare patients have been accommodated within that capability.
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