Page 1092 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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“(a) that in the Minister’s Forward to ACT Health’s ACT Public Health Services Quarterly Performance Report December 2010, the Minister claims that the report shows that the increased investment in the Territory’s public health services is working to provide improved access to care;
(b) the Quarterly Performance Report December 2010 shows that:
(i) over the most recent quarter, elective surgery median waiting times have increased across all three categories;
(ii) the proportion of Category 1 ‘urgent’ patients who have their surgery on time has reduced;
(iii) the number of people accessing elective surgery at ACT public hospitals to the end of the second quarter of 2010-11 was 5 476 which was 14% above the 4 820 reported for the 2009-10 same period last year and 252 above target to the end of December 2010;
(iv) the number of patients waiting longer than a year for elective surgery has increased, however the number of long wait patients had decreased from 2 223 to 2 006 over the same period in 2009 10;
(v) the proportion of patients who have had their elective surgery postponed has increased by 0.5% and shows that the main reasons for postponement were due to the need to treat more urgent patients;
(vi) the Emergency Department has seen a 4% (1 992 presentations) increase in presentations to the end of the second quarter in 2010;
(vii) the percentage of Emergency Department presentations seen on time has deteriorated across four of the five categories in the December quarter;
(viii) Category 5 presentations to the Emergency Department has exceeded national benchmarks with almost 77% of this cohort seen on time even with the 11% increase in Category 5 presentations;
(ix) 6 030 patients presenting at Emergency Departments did not wait for treatment, an increase of 14% from 2009-10;
(x) the Emergency Department access block did not meet targets and had deteriorated for mental health clients;
(xi) Australia’s first public, nurse-led walk-in centre has provided assistance to more than 9 055 patients to December 2010; and
(xii) bed occupancy rates have now reached 83% which is below the long term target of 85% and public bed numbers will reach 912 by the end of the 2010-11 financial year;
(c) that throughout the extensive Minister’s Forward, and her accompanying press release, the Minister did not make mention of any deterioration in performance measures;
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