Hospital Activity Performance
Month - June 2008
Emergency department attendances and admissions
There were 159,624 emergency department attendances in June 2008, an increase of 4.5% compared with the same month last year. Year-to-date emergency department attendances were up by 4.5%. A 3.1 % decrease was reported in the number of responses to '000 calls in June 2008 compared with June 2007.
In June 2008 there were 33,592 admissions from emergency departments, an increase of 4.8% on June 2007. On a year-to-date basis, emergency department admissions have increased by 2.9% on the same period last year.
Emergency Admission Performance was at 76 % in June 2008
outcome was up 2 pps on the figure recorded in June 2007. On a year-to-date basis, Emergency Admission Performance was at 77%, a decrease on the 79% recorded for the same period last year.
Triage performance
In June 2008 triage 2 performance was at 82%, 2 pps above target. Triage 3 performance was at 72%, 3 pps below target but a 3 pps improvement on June 2007.
Off stretcher time performance was at 76 % in June 2008
This result is up 3pps on that recorded in June 2007. On a year-to-date basis, off-stretcher time performance was at 75%, 3 pps lower than that recorded for the same period last year. The Ambulance Service Statewide 50th Percentile Response Times, for the year-to-date rose by 2.6% compared to the same period last year. The Sydney region had an increase of 4.9%.
Surgery performed
At 199,297 the number of booked surgical admissions year-to-date is a decrease of 1,804 on the previous year (-0.9%).
Elective Surgery waiting list this month
There has been an increase in the surgical ready-for-care list to 58,173 in June 2008 (+1,543) compared with June 2007. There has been a decrease of 87 (-74.6%) in surgical urgent overdue patients in the last year with the actual number as at 30 June 2008 being 30. Statewide, the surgical long wait patients have decreased in June 2008 by 39 (-49.4 %) to 40 compared with June 2007.