NSW Healthcare Services Slowly Recover After Pandemic but Demand Remains

Ambulance attendants wearing full protective clothing prepare a gurney to transport residents to hospital at the Wyoming Nursing Home on August 2, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. The Wyoming Nursing Home in Sydney's inner west, run by Hardi Aged Care, has reported 18 Covid-19 cases in residents and a further two in staff, sending the remainder of the home's top floor residents to hospital as a precaution. Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in hot spot local government areas have increased with masks required outdoors at all times and residents limited to movement within a 5 kilometre radius of their homes. Greater Sydney is in lockdown through August 28th to contain the highly contagious Covid-19 delta variant. Photo by Sean Foster/Getty Images

New South Wales (NSW) public hospital and ambulance service activity has improved despite high demand, according to a healthcare quarterly report released today.

The Bureau of Health Information (BHI) healthcare quarterly report (pdf) compared the activity and performance of NSW ambulance, emergency department (ED), elective surgery and admitted patient services from April to June 2023 with previous years.

Ambulance Response Sky Rocketed

The report found ambulance activity had 357,491 responses, the highest number of any quarter since BHI began reporting in 2010.