Bureau of Health Information data revealed 43% of patients spent more than four hours at an emergency department between arriving and leaving
The latest public hospital data released this week for April to June 2023 reveals 43% of patients spent more than four hours at an emergency department between arriving and leaving.This was the highest proportion of patients in both categories since the Bureau ofWednesday’s BHI report also revealed that 77% of patients who were subsequently admitted to hospital between April and June had waited more than four hours in emergency.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup About 74% of patients who arrived at a public hospital in an ambulance had their care transferred to emergency department staff within 30 minutes, slightly higher than the record low of 72.5% recorded a year earlier.
But one in 10 patients still waited longer than 69 minutes to have an emergency department take over their care from paramedics, which the BHI says was well above pre-pandemic levels. The most urgent emergency presentations continued to trend upwards in the three months to July. There were 770,654 emergency department attendances, of which 6,385 were considered the highest priority “triage 1” and 117,949 “triage 2”.record low of 62.8% that was recorded in the April to June quarter last yearParamedics were also under pressure in the three months to June, with the number of ambulance responses and life-threatening emergencies both eclipsing previous records.
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