Elective Surgery and Outpatient Reporting

This page contains reports which provide information about the number of persons on elective surgery wait lists (ESWLs) that are maintained by public hospitals in Western Australia (WA).

Only the three most recent ESWL reports are listed, as each report contains a historical breakdown for monthly data published in earlier reports. Older published ESWL monthly reports have been archived, whereas the last six quarterly reports are listed on the website.

This page also contains reports concerning outpatient activity at metropolitan teaching hospitals, with quarterly reporting commencing in the March quarter 2009 and monthly reporting commencing in July 2009.

Quarterly ESWL reports

These reports provide quarterly information about the total number of cases, admissions and duration of time on ESWLs at public hospitals in WA as part of a national scheme to reduce the number of people on wait lists. The reports include details of admissions from wait lists according to specialty and procedure broken down by individual public hospitals in the Perth metropolitan area and for WA Country Health Service (WACHS) region as a whole.

To access similar quarterly reports from other states and territories, go to the Commonwealth Government's Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan (external website).

Monthly ESWL reports

Monthly reports are available from July 2009 to provide a breakdown of information about the total number of persons and duration of time on ESWLs, admissions from ESWLs and the number of ambulatory surgery initiative (ASI) cases at all public hospitals in WA, at public hospitals in the Perth metropolitan area (including the Joondalup Health Campus and the Peel Health Campus) and at public hospitals in the WACHS.

June 2009

Monthly ASI reports

These reports provide monthly information about the number of ambulatory surgery initiative (ASI) cases undertaken at metropolitan and WACHS hospitals, to enable doctors to do additional work in hospitals with public services to improve patient access to minor procedures.

Quarterly outpatient activity reporting

Quarterly reporting of outpatient activity services commenced with the release of the report for the March 2009 quarter which provided summary information about attendances at each of the metropolitan teaching hospitals.

The report contains quarterly summary data from the March 2007 quarter in relation to counts of attendances at first, new and follow up appointments, as well as did not attend (DNA) appointments. In addition to summary information concerning waiting time, there is also a detailed breakdown by specialty provided for each hospital.

Monthly outpatient activity reporting

Monthly reporting of outpatient activity services commenced with the release of the report for July 2009 and is intended to provide more detailed summary information of counts of attendances at metropolitan teaching hospitals, in relation to first, new and follow up appointments, as well as did not attend (DNA) appointments.

Monthly reports also contain a breakdown of waiting times for first time appointments at each metropolitan teaching hospital.

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