Information for doctors
Background
In 1994, the NSW Department of Health established guidelines to encourage Area Health Services to distribute specialists' waiting time information to GPs.
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Waiting times
This site provides information on specialists' waiting times, and shows the time within which half of the admitted patients were admitted to hospital (50th percentile) and the time within which ninety percent of the admitted patients were admitted to hospital (90th percentile). These are derived from data over the last twelve months. They are provided by procedure, doctor and hospital. The collection covers about 4,000 specialists practising at about 100 hospitals throughout NSW.
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Advising your patients
To assist your patients, see What is waiting time? for information on what is meant by waiting time, what influences waiting times, and how to reduce waiting time. See also Information for patients.more >>
Completeness of data
The waiting times presented in this site do not cover all patients of the NSW Health system.more >>
Other information for doctors
See also information for doctors in the Health Professionals site.