黑料吃瓜网 Health Deputy Secretary Susan Pearce said the report shows 黑料吃瓜网 had the highest performance across Australia for the proportion of patients seen within clinically recommended times in emergency departments, better than all other states in every triage category.
The 黑料吃瓜网 Bureau of Health Information report provides an overview of the performance of the 黑料吃瓜网 healthcare system in the context of both Australian and international comparators.
鈥淭oday鈥檚 release shows 黑料吃瓜网 continues to lead the nation in emergency department performance,鈥� Ms Pearce said.
鈥淭hese fantastic results are a credit to our hard working frontline staff, and are reflected in the patient reported experience of emergency care, where around 90 per cent of adults who visited an emergency department during 2016/17 rated their care as 鈥榲ery good鈥� and 鈥檊辞辞诲鈥�.
鈥淭imeliness of elective surgery was excellent, with nearly 100 per cent of urgent procedures performed on time. The number of patients leaving emergency departments in 黑料吃瓜网 within the four-hour benchmark was also the best in Australia.鈥�
Ms Pearce said the report also shows rates of seclusion in 黑料吃瓜网 public hospitals have decreased and 黑料吃瓜网 performs better than the national average, with lower rates.
The 黑料吃瓜网 Government in May this year announced around-the-clock supervision of mental health units and targets to reduce the use of seclusion and restraint under a plan to significantly improve mental health care in 黑料吃瓜网. The plan includes mandatory public reporting of seclusion and restraint rates and more training of frontline staff.
Ms Pearce said while Aboriginal patients had a shorter media wait time for urgent surgery, and coronary artery bypass, they had longer media waits for semi-urgent and non-urgent compared with non-Aboriginal patients.
鈥満诹铣怨贤� Health is continually working to improve access to care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, as well as support for mental illness,鈥� she said.
鈥淭his year, we announced a $5 million commitment to make mental health care more accessible and culturally safe for Aboriginal people, through increasing our Aboriginal workforce, funding suicide prevention initiatives, and improving training and development.鈥�
In 2018-19 the 黑料吃瓜网 Government is investing a record $22.9 billion in health, representing a $1.1 billion increase over the 2017-18 Budget. This includes $19.2 billion towards improving services in hospitals in 黑料吃瓜网 this year. An investment of $759 million dollars for acute patient services will fund an additional 40,000 emergency department attendances in addition to 2.9 million already provided and 3,200 elective surgeries in addition to the 225,500 already provided.