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Townsville 黑料吃瓜群网 and Health Service has achieved a major performance benchmark with patients receiving surgery on time every time.
聽Health Minister, Lawrence Springborg, said Townsville HHS was in the increasing number of regional hospital boards across the State, meeting or exceeding the national elective surgery waiting times target (NEST).聽
鈥淭oday, there are no patients on the Townsville HHS elective surgery list who are waiting longer than the clinically recommended times for urgent, semi-urgent and non-urgent surgery," 聽Mr Springborg said.
鈥淎ll patients are now seen faster than ever with the average wait reduced over the last year by 24 days to 105 days or three-and-a-half months across all categories.
Mr Springborg said the proof of the improvement in health services was in the NEST benchmark which applied Australia-wide, with hospitals striving to treat surgical patients within a recommended clinical priority timeframe:
In Townsville, the most urgent elective patients have their operations in 11 days on average 鈥� the national benchmark is 30 days; Semi-urgent patients wait on average 41 days 鈥� the national benchmark is 90 days;

• Non -urgent patients are seen聽on average in 聽146 days 鈥� the national benchmark is one year.

Mr Springborg said the Townsville HHS had achieved significant reductions in waiting times across different surgical categories in the past year of up to four weeks.
鈥淚n Townsville, this benchmark has been achieved in a team effort involving staff at the HHS聽and partner private hospitals who co-operate to make sure patients receive their care in a timely way,鈥� he said.
鈥淥ur clinical teams are rightly proud of their efforts. They have put their patients first and achieved an increase in surgical throughput which would ordinarily have cost the taxpayer an extra $7.5 million.
鈥淚n March, 2012, Townsville was treating just 89 percent of urgent cases; 61 pc of semi-urgent cases and 62 percent of non-urgent cases within the recommended time.鈥�
聽鈥淚 congratulate聽the hard-working surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and support staff who have achieved this fantastic result for the local community,鈥� he said.
鈥淭hanks also to the HHS Board for its leadership and support.鈥�