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Parliamentary Questions


Question On Notice No. 5944 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 10 December 2019 by Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup

Parliament: 40 Session: 1


Question

For each hospital will the Minister please provide the following information:
(a) What are the numbers on the surgery waiting list for each surgical specialty;
(b) What are the wait times for each urgency category in each specialty;
(c) What are the theatre occupancy rates on weekends;
(d) How many patients are over boundary in each specialty in each category and what are their wait times; and
(e) What are the wait times and numbers for paediatric outpatient clinic:
(i) How many are over boundary and what are their wait times.?

Answered on 12 February 2020

I am advised:

(a)-(b) & (d)

Refer to the Elective Surgery Waitlist Reports located on the Our Performance page of the WA Department of Health website; https://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Our-performance

 

(c)

Theatre Utilisation % by Hospital

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

Albany Hospital

80.6%

90.9%

83.7%

76.8%

Armadale Health Service

30.7%

50.0%

53.0%

54.2%

Bentley Health Service

95.4%

89.8%

58.2%

98.6%

Broome Health Campus

97.0%

89.7%

74.6%

81.8%

Bunbury Hospital

36.2%

41.0%

42.1%

41.1%

Busselton Hospital

45.8%

32.5%

28.4%

25.3%

Carnarvon Hospital

52.1%

88.9%

40.9%

N/A

Derby Hospital

64.3%

47.9%

49.8%

56.3%

Esperance Hospital

46.0%

56.9%

61.9%

83.4%

Fiona Stanley Hospital

41.1%

45.7%

47.3%

46.7%

Geraldton Hospital

94.3%

93.9%

94.4%

92.7%

Kalgoorlie Health Campus

44.9%

54.7%

65.9%

76.9%

Karratha Health Campus &

Nickol Bay Hospital

66.3%

71.8%

81.8%

78.1%

King Edward Memorial Hospital

28.7%

28.2%

30.7%

31.8%

Kununurra Hospital

45.5%

30.7%

18.6%

24.9%

Narrogin Hospital

51.1%

47.7%

55.0%

54.5%

Osborne Park Hospital

19.2%

16.4%

14.7%

14.6%

Perth Children's Hospital & Princess Margaret Hospital

47.1%

52.7%

58.0%

56.2%

Port Hedland Health Campus

31.3%

33.8%

38.8%

42.6%

Rockingham General Hospital

58.9%

30.1%

25.2%

26.8%

Royal Perth Hospital

66.1%

66.0%

77.6%

81.2%

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

60.1%

49.8%

53.5%

54.8%

Overall

49.1%

48.7%

51.5%

51.7%

 

Notes:

‘Theatre Occupancy’ is reported as per ‘Theatre Utilisation’ reporting. This includes:

·         All elective and emergency theatre sessions with a valid start time on Saturday and Sunday

·         Theatre sessions are measured by scheduled start and end times

·         Operation time is measured from wheels in to theatre or anaesthetic start time (whichever is earlier), to wheels out of theatre.

·         Theatre utilisation is calculated by the total operation time within the scheduled session/total scheduled theatre session length.  i.e. it only counts operating time which falls within the scheduled start and end times and does not include early starts and over runs.

·         2019/20 figures  represent year to date (YTD) 1 July to 22 December 2019.

·         Perth Children's Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital theatre utilisation has been combined.

·         Nickol Bay Hospital & Karratha Health Campus theatre utilisation has been combined.

·         Carnarvon Hospital reported no weekend theatre sessions for YTD 19/20.

 

(e)-(e)(i) Detailed information on wait times for non-admitted services are not currently available. A comprehensive, multi-faceted range of Outpatient Reform Projects are currently underway. These projects include extensive work to improve the quality, consistency and accuracy of outpatient data, including how it is categorised, collected and reported.