The West Moreton mayors say the hospital is too small for the rapidly growing population it services and it needs a funding injection from the state government.
While it appears Ipswich Hospital is getting through its waitlist, thousands of elective surgery patients have been treated at private hospitals.
Currently there are about 1,800 people waiting for elective surgery at Ipswich Hospital, but another 9,600 are waiting to get on that list.In the three months to March, just 268 patients received elective surgery, and just half of category 2 and 3 surgery patients were treated within clinically recommended times.Graham Lehmann, mayor of the Somerset Region, is worried about how the region will fare in a decade given the service is unable to cope with existing demand.
The Redbank Plains resident in his 50s suffers from chronic back pain, related to a prolapsed spinal disc injury. "After about an hour or so I was taken into one of the rooms in emergency basically the curtains around you … the doctor came and saw me and disappeared … she came back and said, 'Well, we've got no beds for you, so we'll have to send you home."'"I will pay for an Uber. I'll pay for a cab. I will get a lift with a neighbour or something. I am never ever going to Ipswich Hospital again, I don't care what it's for," he said.
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