Quarterly

perfomance results for Elective Surgery: Oct-Dec 2018

Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital

Elective surgery overview

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Elective surgery performed: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Total number of elective 1,416

surgery procedures

Elective surgery performed by urgency category: Click for Waiting times for patients who received elective Click for
detail
Oct-Dec 2018 surgery (days): Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Median waiting time 16 days

Urgent 268
90th percentile waiting time 28 days
Median waiting time 44 days
Semi-urgent 486
90th percentile waiting time 80 days
Median waiting time 308 days
Non-urgent 593
90th percentile waiting time 363 days

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Percent of patients¹ who received elective surgery on time²: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

All categories 97.1%

Recommended
Urgent 99.6%
30 days
Recommended
Semi-urgent 99.2%
90 days
Recommended
Non-urgent 94.3%
365 days

Elective surgery performed by specialty of surgeon Click for Percent of patients who received elective surgery Click for
(top 5): Oct-Dec 2018 detail on time by specialty of surgeon: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Urology 356 Urology 99.7%

General surgery 320 General surgery 100.0%
Orthopaedic surgery 227 Orthopaedic surgery 95.6%
Ophthalmology 224 Ophthalmology 90.0%
Ear, nose and throat surgery 164 Ear, nose and throat surge.. 96.3%

Elective surgery performed by common procedure Click for Percent of patients who received elective surgery Click for
(top 5): Oct-Dec 2018 detail on time by common procedure: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Cataract extraction 166 Cataract extraction 89.6%

Cystoscopy 139 Cystoscopy 100.0%
Tonsillectomy 73 Tonsillectomy 95.9%
Total knee replacement 53 Total knee replacement 96.2%
Other - General 34 Other - General 100.0%

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Patients on the waiting list at the end of the quarter: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Patients on list ready for surgery 2,763

Patients on list not ready for surgery 359

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Patients on the waiting list ready for surgery by urgency category at the end of the quarter: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Urgent 29

Semi-urgent 402

Non-urgent 2,332

Patients on the waiting list ready for surgery by Click for Patients on the waiting list ready for surgery by Click for
specialty (top 5) at the end of the quarter: Oct-Dec 2018 detail procedure (top 5) at the end of the quarter: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

Orthopaedic surgery 791 Cataract extraction 459

Ophthalmology 540 Total knee replacement 277
Ear, nose and throat surgery 516 Tonsillectomy 255
General surgery 489 Total hip replacement 109
Urology 206 Cholecystectomy 63

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Patients ready for surgery on the waiting list for longer than 12 months at the end of the quarter: Oct-Dec 2018 detail

All specialties 9

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Elective Surgery (ES) overview information is
reported for the selected hospital, local health
district or peer group.
For each measure reported, more details are
available.
A glossary of common procedures is available
by clicking on the supplementary information link
below.
¹ These results are rounded at the nearest whole percentage.
² 'On time' refers to surgery completed within the clinically
recommended time frame of 30 days for urgent, 90 days for
semi-urgent, 365 days for non-urgent surgery.
(<5) or (*) If the result is suppressed due to small number and
to protect patient privacy.
Counts of staged procedures are reported separately from
other urgency categories
Source: NSW Health, Waiting List Collection On-line System. Data
extracted on 21 January 2019.

Supplementary information Last updated 20/02/2019