Your Hospitals report released

13 September 2010

The twelfth edition of the Your Hospitals report was released today. The report provides Victorians with an insight into public hospital performance.

The report also includes information on patient satisfaction and is designed to inform the public on achievements and challenges in the provision of public health services.

Released twice a year, Your Hospitals provides individual hospital data for the number of admissions, emergency department presentations and the number of patients on elective surgery waiting lists for January to June 2010.

In 2009-10, there were 1,457,052 admissions to public hospitals – an increase of 36,264 or 2.6 per cent compared with 2008-09.

In the year end to June, Victoria’s public hospital treated 155,326 elective surgery patients – the highest number ever treated in a financial year. Also in the same period, the number of elective surgery patients waiting longer than the recommended time had dropped by 15 per cent compared to the same time the previous year.

Other key figures from the report show that hospitals met four of the nine key performance criteria set by the Government including:

• Going on bypass 1.9 per cent of time, below the 3 per cent target;
• Treating 100 per cent of Category 1 emergency department patients within the recommended time;
• Treating 81 per cent of Category 2 patients within the recommended time
• Treating 92 per cent of non-urgent elective surgery patients within the recommended time.

Hospitals equalled or improved their performance in two other indicators:

• Transferring 68 per cent of emergency department patients requiring admission to a bed, up from 67 per cent last year; and
• Admitting 73 per cent of semi urgent elective surgery patients within 90 days, equal to last year.

More information

The full Your Hospitals report is available for download from the Department of Health website.