New MyHospitals Data Shows Record Use of Hospitals

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30 November 2011

Australians can now look back at over three-years of elective surgery and emergency department data for their local hospital on the popular MyHospitals website following new data added to the website today.

Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon said the new data will help Australians to see how their local hospital performance has changed over time.

“The MyHospitals website means that any Australian can easily check out how their local hospital stacks up,” Minister Roxon said.

“The Gillard Government is delivering record funding to hospitals around the country so they can provide more beds and better care for working families. The seven hundred hospital infrastructure projects that our Government is funding are clear examples of how we’re delivering to the front line of our health system.

“This latest update shows that more people are now receiving their elective surgery and fewer people are waiting longer than 12 months. In total, hospitals have delivered more than 130,000 extra operations since 2007.

“Waiting times at the nation’s emergency departments have also remained stable while the number of emergency presentations tipped over the six million mark for the first time.

“Public hospitals are doing well in the fight against the serious blood stream infection Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB). Good hygiene with alcohol-based hand rubs, better use of gloves and other common-sense procedures in hospitals will go a long way to further reducing Australia’s infection rates of SAB.

“While much has been achieved, there’s more work to do. MyHospitals will help everyone keep watch on which hospitals are making the grade, and which need help to achieve new ambitious national targets.”

All states and territories are now working towards achieving new ambitious elective surgery and emergency department targets through national health reform. The elective surgery target calls for 100 per cent of patients to have their surgery within the clinically-recommended time in all urgency categories by the end of 2015 for the larger states and by 2016 for Tasmania, ACT and NT. The emergency target calls for 90 per cent of all patients presenting to an emergency department in a major public hospital will receive all necessary care or have been admitted to hospital within four hours by 2015.

For all media inquiries, please contact the Minister's Office on 02 6277 7220

Media notes:
The two reports released today are subsets of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 2010-11 Australian Hospital Statistics report. The full 2010-11 report will be issued by the AIHW in April/May next year.

The subset Emergency Department Care and Elective Surgery Waiting Times report is available at http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737420662

The Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia in Australian Public Hospitals report is at http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737420664

SAB is a serious and potentially-deadly bloodstream infection that is hard to treat when it becomes resistant to antibiotics.

Information on elective surgery and emergency department waiting times for 2010–11 was also updated today on the MyHospitals website.

The emergency department data below (from The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne) is provided as an example of how individuals can see how data changes over time.

Emergency (within 10 minutes)
87% treated on time compared to the national average of 79%.
Table showing percentage seen within 10 minutes at The Alfred Hospital compared to the national average.
Year	The Alfred Hospital	National Average
2010-11	87%	79%
2009-10	82%	78%
2008-09	71%	77%

Urgent (within 30 minutes)
79% treated on time compared to the national average of 65%.
Table showing percentage see within 30 minutes at The Alfred Hospital compared to the national average.
Year	The Alfred Hospital	National Average
2010-11	87%	65%
2009-10	82%	65%
2008-09	71%	64%

Semi-Urgent (within 60 minutes)
70% treated on time compared to the national average of 68%.
Table showing percentage seen within 10 minutes at The Alfred Hospital compared to the national average.
Year	The Alfred Hospital	National Average
2010-11	70%	68%
2009-10	67%	68%
2008-09	63%	67%

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