HOSPITAL SERVICES REPORT : ACCESS TO ELECTIVE SURGERY- NOV 96
People on the waiting list waiting longer than the ideal for each of our major public hospitals
Waiting list exceeding ideal waiting times, by patient category, by individual hospital
Inner and Eastern Health Care Network
North Eastern Health Care Network
Women's and Children's Health Care Network
Total all waiting list hospitals
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| Western Health Care Network | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | 205 | 0 | 0 | - | 238 | 68 | 243 | 257 |
| Western Hospital | 93 | 0 | 0 | - | 586 | 86 | 114 | 33 |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| Inner and Eastern Health Care Network | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Alfred Healthcare Group | 145 | 0 | 0 | - | 413 | 162 | 188 | 16 |
| Angliss Hospital | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 50 | 1 | 0 | -100 |
| Box Hill Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 171 | 12 | 16 | 33 |
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Maroondah Hospital | 81 | 0 | 0 | - | 134 | 8 | 7 | -13 |
| Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | 366 | 736 | 618 | -16 |
| St Vincent's Hospital | 106 | 0 | 0 | - | 650 | 250 | 244 | -2 |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| North Eastern Health Care Network | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre 1 | 186 | 0 | 0 | - | 413 | 408 | 715 | 75 |
| Preston and Northcote Community Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 129 | 102 | 106 | 4 |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| Southern Health Care Network | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Dandenong Hospital | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | 68 | 24 | 19 | -21 |
| Monash Medical Centre | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 182 | 120 | 140 | 17 |
| Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| Peninsula Health Care Network | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Mornington Peninsula Hospital | 4 | 0 | 0 | - | 246 | 322 | 341 | 6 |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| Women's and Children's Health Care Network | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Royal Children's Hospital | 15 | 0 | 0 | - | 45 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Royal Women's Hospital | 5 | 0 | 0 | - | 331 | 85 | 49 | -42 |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| Non Metropolitan Hospitals | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 |
| Ballarat Base Hospital | 61 | 0 | 0 | - | 608 | 424 | 463 | 9 |
| Bendigo Health Care Group2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 145 | 17 | 20 | 18 |
| Central Wellington Health Service3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 14 | 3 | 6 | 100 |
| The Geelong Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 254 | 63 | 62 | -2 |
| Goulburn Valley Base Hospital 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 101 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Hamilton Base Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 17 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Latrobe Regional Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | -100 |
| Wangaratta District Base Hospital | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | 285 | 19 | 36 | 89 |
| Warrnambool and District Base Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 117 | 0 | 0 | - |
| West Gippsland Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 20 | - |
| Urgent cases waiting over 30 days | Semi urgent cases waiting over 90 days | |||||||
| 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | 1 July 1993 | 1 April 1996 | 1 July 1996 | Change (%) Apr to Jul 1996 | |
| Total all waiting list hospital | 911 | 0 | 0 | - | 5569 | 2911 | 3407 | 17 |
1Austin Hospital includes data for Repatriation Medical Centre campus from June 1996.
2 Bendigo Health Care Group was formerly Bendigo Hospital to 30 June 1995.
3Central Wellington Health Service was formerly Gippsland Base Hospital prior to 28 November 1994.
4 Goulburn Valley Base Hospital includes Tatura District Hospital from July 1993 and Waranga Memorial Hospital from 1 March 1996.
Source: Hospital waiting list returns.