❓ WA Parliament Question on Notice regarding surgery waiting lists, times, and government plans to reduce them, including funding and strategies.
AnsweredQoN 673Legislative Assembly
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(1) How many people are on the surgery waiting lists of the Central Bureau in each of its categories?
(2) What is the expected length of wait for each of these categories?
(3) What action is the Government planning to take to reduce the time each listed person waits for surgery?
(4) Approximately how much funding would be required to reduce the waiting periods to no more than three months?
(2) What is the expected length of wait for each of these categories?
(3) What action is the Government planning to take to reduce the time each listed person waits for surgery?
(4) Approximately how much funding would be required to reduce the waiting periods to no more than three months?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
21 August 2001
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
21 days
Non Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 70 Category 2 (semi-urgent) 1 001 Category 3 (routine) 3 724 (2) Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 12 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 74 days Category 3 (routine) 257 days Non Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 18 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 101 days Category 3 (routine) 156 days (3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
(2) Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 12 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 74 days Category 3 (routine) 257 days Non Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 18 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 101 days Category 3 (routine) 156 days (3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
Non Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 18 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 101 days Category 3 (routine) 156 days (3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
(3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
(4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
(2) Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 12 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 74 days Category 3 (routine) 257 days Non Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 18 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 101 days Category 3 (routine) 156 days (3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
Non Teaching Hospitals: Category 1 (urgent) 18 days Category 2 (semi-urgent) 101 days Category 3 (routine) 156 days (3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
(3) This Government is committed to: Allocate an additional $8 million over four years to reduce the waiting lists and waiting times that many people with urgent and semi-urgent medical needs experience; Improve the waiting list and waiting time strategy to require treatment within reasonable and clinically desirable time limits; Ensure that priority is given to children on the waiting lists; Strengthen an on-line central bureau for monitoring patient appointments to assist GPs in directing patients to medical practitioners and facilities convenient to them but where waiting lists are shorter; and Implement a monitoring system to obtain accurate data on the time taken from the original GP referral to secure appointments (that is, the 'waiting list' to get onto the waiting list). (4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
(4) Since April 1998 the Department of Health has invested $78 million in reducing the Teaching Hospital clearance time from 10.7 months to the current 4.6 months. To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
To further reduce the clearance time to 3 motnhs as a once off exercise, the cost would be $3 million.
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