New South Wales public hospitals have completed almost twice as many elective surgeries between July to September compared to the previous quarter according to the latest report from the Bureau of Health Information (BHI), cutting over 5,000 people from the waiting list.
A quarterly report released on Dec. 9 shows that NSW health workers in the quarter ending Sept. 30 performed over 64,600 non-emergency operations, whereas between April to June they did below 36,000. Not only is this a 4.2 percent (up 2,580) increase on the same quarter last year but it is also the highest in five years.
