NSW regional hospitals have shown mixed results In the face of record emergency presentations in the latest (BHI) report. or signup to continue reading The report, released on September 18, shows the performance for public health services in NSW from April to June 2024. There were 795,817 emergency department (ED) attendances from April to June, up 3.
3 per cent from the same time last year, and only marginally lower (1.8 per cent) than the . One of the main indicators of hospital performance is patients starting their ED treatment on time (for example triage category 2, the benchmark 10 minutes), .
Just 63.7 per cent of patients started their treatment on time - down 2.1 per cent compared with the same time a year earlier.
The percentage of all patients who had their treatment start on time was 58.3 per cent in urban hospitals and 73.4 per cent in rural hospitals.
Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital had just under 40 per cent of presenting patients treated on time, down 22 per cent on the previous year. That was followed by Wagga Wagga Base Hospital which attended to 42.9 per cent of patients on time, Manning Base Hospital (44 per cent), Maitland Hospital (45 per cent) and Gosford Hospital attended to 47 per cent of its ED patients on time.
The best performing regional health service was Deniliquin which attended to 95 per cent of patients on time, followed by Kurri Kurri Hospital (95.3 per cent), Narrabri Hospital (89.8 per cent), Cowra Health Service (89.
6 per cent) and Lachla.