A new report has identified that demand is skyrocketing for hospital and ambulance services across the state and the MLHD.
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The Healthcare Quarterly report was released by the Bureau of Health Information and analysed activity and performance for public hospital and ambulance services in NSW between January and March this year.
BHI Chief Executive Dr Diane Watson said that the results demand had grown significantly in a one year period, as people continued to mitigate the ongoing pandemic.
"This report shows activity across the NSW healthcare system in January to March 2021 was seen either at or above those levels seen at the same time in 2020, while timelines of care was down for key emergency department and ambulance measures" Dr Watson said.
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However, according to Chief Executive of the MLHD Jill Ludford, timelines of care across the MLHD were actually up from last year.
"While there was an overall decline in the number of people coming to our emergency departments, 89.3 per cent of patients had their treatment start on time" Mrs Ludford said.
The percentage of patients transferred within the 30-minute benchmark time from ambulance paramedics to an ED clinician was 90.6 per cent, above the target of 90 per cent.
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Moreover whilst arrivals by ambulance to the MLHD's emergency departments were up 4.6 per cent, the median time for patients to receive treatment in emergency was six minutes, well below the NSW target of ten minutes, with MLHD patients leaving emergency on average about one hour faster than patients in the rest of NSW and 78.9 per cent of patients leaving emergency within four hours of presentation.
Mrs Ludford said that these statistics were great results, and an indication that the $15.9m in additional funding to the $663.9m MLHDs 2021-21 budget had tangible results.
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