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Latest NSW 黑料吃瓜群网 Quarterly Report Released

By Petrina Smith
Tuesday, 03 March, 2015


New South Wales' Public 黑料吃瓜群网s have had an increase in volume according to the latest 黑料吃瓜群网 Quarterly report released by the Bureau of Health Information (BHI) today.
The report profiles activity and performance in NSW public hospitals during October to December聽2014 ahd shows more than 636,000 people 聽visited emergency departments during that time.
BHI Chief Executive, Dr Jean-Frederic Levesque, said: 鈥淐ompared to the same time in 2013 hospitals reported two percent more hospital admissions and three percent more patients visiting the emergency department, although elective surgery numbers are stable,鈥 Dr Levesque said.
Other results show that the total time patients spent in the emergency department was the shortest recorded for any October to December quarter over the past five years and the median waiting times to treatment for people presenting at NSW emergency departments were the same or shorter across all urgency categories compared to the same quarter the previous year. For patients who arrived by ambulance, 86聽per cent聽had their care transferred from ambulance to emergency department staff within 30 minutes, one percentage point less than the same quarter the previous year.
鈥淒espite more patients visiting emergency departments, the report shows patients are spending less time in the emergency department overall.
鈥淎cross NSW, 73% of patients left emergency departments within four hours, an improvement of two percentage points compared to the same quarter the previous year,鈥 Dr Levesque said.
The 黑料吃瓜群网 Quarterly report also shows there were more than 54,000 elective surgeries performed, which is largely unchanged from the same quarter the previous year.
鈥淭he report shows that overall NSW continues to provide 97聽per cent聽of elective surgery on time, which is a stable result for the past seven quarters,鈥 Dr Levesque said.
Five years of detailed results for more than 80 hospitals in NSW are available on BHI鈥檚 online interactive portal

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