The COAG Reform Council has published it's first report on the National Partnership on Improving Public Hospitals. No State or Territory met all of its targets for improving timely care in both elective surgery and emergency departments.
The report assesses governments’ performance against elective surgery and emergency department targets. The elective surgery targets are for the proportion of patients seen within clinically recommended times, and for reducing average waiting periods that go over those times. Governments are also required to ensure that the 10% of people who have waited the longest beyond the recommended time are seen within a year. The emergency department targets are that patients must be admitted to hospital, referred on or discharged within four hours—all States and Territories have agreed to achieve 90% by 2015.
Read the full report here.
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