Who’s got their finger on the pulse of NSW’s economy and healthcare crisis? Premier Dominic Perrottet or Opposition Leader Chris Minns?
Some 18,000 of these patients had been waiting longer for their surgeries than clinically recommended guidelines.It’s also true that patients are facing long ED wait times, even as fewer people turn up to hospital EDs compared with the same quarter in 2021 and pre-pandemic levels, the BHI data shows.
But this figure does not include the patients who were treated and discharged, transferred to another hospital or left without being treated. Overall, the median time spent in EDs was 3 hours and 33 minutes, and one in 10 patients was still there 11 hours and 4 minutes after arriving. Patients in the highest, most urgent triage categories account for the bulk of emergency department presentations and their numbers are rising.
Comparing NSW hospitals’ performance with other Australian states and territories is a much more favourable dataset for the premier. “Thirty resignations from the emergency department from nurses at Blacktown [and] 30 resignations at Westmead,” the opposition leader said. In a statement, a spokeswoman said the movement of ED nurses at the two hospitals had “followed normal attrition rates” and that the health district had a record number of nursing and midwifery graduates starting this year.
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