The Victorian government has promised an extra 40,000 elective surgeries will be undertaken this year, but doctors doubt it is possible. Phil Muscat is among the thousands of people languishing on the waiting list.
Phil Muscat constantly feels like his hand has been slammed in a door.
with an extra 40,000 operations to be undertaken this year, building up to 240,000 every year from 2024. “My public elective surgery waiting list is catastrophic,” Cunningham said. “That’s a fair and realistic adjective to use for it.” Cunningham, who treats both public and private spinal surgery patients, said all major metropolitan hospitals in Melbourne were balancing soaring public surgical waitlists, alongside increasing numbers of trauma patients, who require urgent surgery.“I only get through one elective spinal surgery case a month at the moment and I’m putting two or three patients on the list every fortnight,” Cunningham said.
As part of the $1.5 billion plan, Victorian hospitals will be operating at night and on weekends to try to catch up. Frankston Private Hospital is set to be effectively taken over by the state government, and run as a public surgery centre, in the hope it will handle up to 9000 public patients a year, from this year. The Bellbird Private Hospital in Blackburn will also be transformed into a public surgery centre.
While government investments, including a new campus for the Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Arden precinct, will create space for 10,500 additional elective surgeries annually, he said, these projects were years off completion.
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