A new Australian Medical Association report found only three of Australia's 201 public hospitals had met targets, prompting calls for incentives for them to do better.
need an "urgent funding injection" to relieve the "suffering and pain" being caused to patients, doctors say.
The only hospitals which fully met the targets were Young in New South Wales and South Coast District and Riverland General in South Australia. Hospitals were given a "traffic light" rating according to the percentage of patients who started treatment within the recommended time for each urgency category.
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