Page 1083 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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(v) the proportion of patients who have had their elective surgery postponed has increased by 0.5% and shows that the main reasons for postponement were due to the need to treat more urgent patients;
(vi) the Emergency Department has seen a 4% (1 992 presentations) increase in presentations to the end of the second quarter in 2010;
(vii) the percentage of Emergency Department presentations seen on time has deteriorated across four of the five categories in the December quarter;
(viii) Category 5 presentations to the Emergency Department has exceeded national benchmarks with almost 77% of this cohort seen on time even with the 11% increase in Category 5 presentations;
(ix) 6 030 patients presenting at Emergency Departments did not wait for treatment, an increase of 14% from 2009-10;
(x) the Emergency Department access block did not meet targets and had deteriorated for mental health clients;
(xi) Australia’s first public, nurse-led walk-in centre has provided assistance to more than 9 055 patients to December 2010; and
(xii) bed occupancy rates have now reached 83% which is below the long term target of 85% and public bed numbers will reach 912 by the end of the 2010-11 financial year;
(c) that from the 55 indicators contained in the quarterly report, that 52% show improvements from last year, 33% show a decline from last year, 4% show results lower than last year but better than the national target results and 11% are not performance measures and simply include activity changes; and
(d) that the reason for the decline in median waiting time is explained in the quarterly report and is due to the extra focus that has been placed on undertaking extended wait patients;
(2) notes that emergency surgery at Canberra’s public hospitals has increased by 13% over the last three years; and
(3) calls on the Minister for Health to:
(a) continue to provide accurate and consistent reporting of public health services through the timely release of the ACT Health quarterly performance reports; and
(b) report to the Assembly by the first sitting week in August on possible alternative indicators, including, where feasible, outcome measures, to enhance public reporting on health services in the ACT.”.
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