Hospital improves

By Casey Neill
ANGLISS Hospital’s latest report card shows improvement in patient treatment times in the first six months of the year.
The new Your Hospitals report contains emergency department and elective surgery figures from January to June.
Overall, Angliss emergency department patients were seen faster than in the previous six months.
All category one emergency patients were again treated immediately.
The number of patients on elective surgery waiting lists decreased slightly, but on average waited a little longer for surgery.
Time on hospital bypass, when ambulances are turned away from the hospital, was almost halved.
At 0.5 per cent, it was also well below the 3 per cent state benchmark.
More category two elective surgery patients were forced to wait longer than 90 days for operations than in the same period last year.
However, Angliss Hospital general manager Natalie Sullivan said government targets for category two patients were met over a 12 month period.
“Achieving 82 per cent across the full year was an excellent result for the hospital, given that the overall result for the state was 71 per cent,” she said.
The number of category two elective surgery patients admitted within 90 days between January and June this year was just 76 per cent.
“This is not an unexpected result for this period, due to the theatre shut-down over Christmas for much-needed capital improvement works,” Ms Sullivan said.