PERFORMANCE STANDARDS – NEW SOUTH WALES

Patients wait too long for life-saving care – report

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Original article by Nicole Hasham
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 10-Dec-14

The Auditor-General’s office in New South Wales (NSW) has issued the latest survey of public hospital emergency department performance. It shows an improvement on 2013, despite a rise in patient numbers to close to 2.7 million. However waiting times at hospitals in the Sydney, Central Coast and Western NSW health districts were unacceptably long, as the facilities failed to meet the standard of four fifths of patients being treated within 10 minutes. Ambulance response times meanwhile have fallen to 10.8 minutes, in the biggest improvement since 2009

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NEW SOUTH WALES. AUDITOR GENERAL’S DEPT, NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, GOSFORD HOSPITAL, ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL, CONCORD HOSPITAL, CANTERBURY HOSPITAL, AMBULANCE SERVICE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Patients wait too long for life-saving care – report

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Original article by Nicole Hasham
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 10-Dec-14

The Auditor-General’s office in New South Wales (NSW) has issued the latest survey of public hospital emergency department performance. It shows an improvement on 2013, despite a rise in patient numbers to close to 2.7 million. However waiting times at hospitals in the Sydney, Central Coast and Western NSW health districts were unacceptably long, as the facilities failed to meet the standard of four fifths of patients being treated within 10 minutes. Ambulance response times meanwhile have fallen to 10.8 minutes, in the biggest improvement since 2009

CORPORATES
NEW SOUTH WALES. AUDITOR GENERAL’S DEPT, NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, GOSFORD HOSPITAL, ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL, CONCORD HOSPITAL, CANTERBURY HOSPITAL, AMBULANCE SERVICE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Many patients wait too long

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Original article by Harriet Alexander
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 4-Dec-14

New data released by the Bureau of Health Information shows that Western Sydney hospitals have failed to meet targets for treatment times. At Westmead Hospital, 45 per cent of patients were treated within four hours in the third quarter of 2014. The corresponding ratio for Mount Druitt, Campbelltown and Nepean is below 60 per cent

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NEW SOUTH WALES. BUREAU OF HEALTH INFORMATION, WESTMEAD HOSPITAL, BLACKTOWN HOSPITAL, ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, WESTMEAD PRIVATE HOSPITAL PTY LTD, MOUNT DRUITT HOSPITAL