Hawkesbury District Hospital has rivaled some of the larger hospitals in Western Sydney in the latest Bureau of Health Information Hospital Quarterly report, proving positive results in Emergency Department presentations.
Across the state hospital ED’s treated a rising numbers of sicker patients in the depths of a record winter, but the state's hospitals have still managed to cut waiting times, including the Hawkesbury.
The latest Bureau of Health Information Hospital Quarterly report, published on Wednesday, also showed the wait times for elective surgeries dropped as more patients were wheeled into operating theatres within clinically recommended guidelines over the July-September period.
Compared to other major hospitals in Western Sydney, Hawkesbury has performed well in the latest statistics.
The emergency department stats show that of the 5499 patient presentations during July and September, 83.3% were treated on time. At Westmead Hospital 47% were treated on time.
Of those treated at Hawkesbury Hospital 77.8% left within four hours, compared to 52.6% at Nepean Hospital.
Some 71.5 per cent of the 652,749 patients who visited emergency departments in NSW waited four hours or less (up 1.4 percentage points), leaving 28.5 per cent waiting longer than the target time over the 2016 winter quarter
No major Sydney hospital recorded a reduction in performance compared with the same period last year.
But wait times in emergency departments (EDs) and for surgery at some of the city's busiest major hospitals, particularly in the west, were still well below the overall NSW result, despite significant improvements across the board.
