Surgery in Australian hospitals 2010-11

Surgery in Australian Hospitals 2010-11 is a snapshot bulletin providing an overview of Australia's 2.4 million annual hospitalisations for surgery, based on data first published by the AIHW in April. In 2010-11, when around 1.0 million surgery hospitalisations occurred in public hospitals and 1.4 million in private hospitals. Almost a quarter of all hospitalisations in this period involved surgery.  The report includes information on waiting times, who received the surgery, what type of surgery was performed, and the lengths of stay.