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Specialist outpatient

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Mater Adult Public Hospital

Specialist outpatient

Specialist outpatient
  • Hospital activity
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  • Elective surgery
  • Specialist outpatient

Your General Practitioner or Practitioner referred you to specialist outpatients as they considered that your reason for referral condition required specialist opinion beyond what is available within the primary healthcare or community setting.

 

Referrals are seen in order of clinical urgency. The clinical urgency of your referral is assessed using Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (CPC) where they exist for a specialty, or as per existing local referral guidelines. CPCs are clinical decision support tools that will help ensure patients referred for public specialist outpatient services in Queensland are assessed in order of clinical urgency regardless of where they live and that patients are seen when they are ready for care. The CPCs are available at the following link: Clinical Prioritisation Criteria | Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (health.qld.gov.au)

 

Clinical urgency categorisation recommends a patient’s clinically recommended waiting time as:

Category 1 – appointment required within 30 calendar days

Category 2 – appointment required within 90 calendar days

Category 3 – appointment required within 365 calendar days.

 

In some specialities there are high numbers of patients waiting to be seen that may result in patients waiting longer than clinically recommended. 

 

For further information about specialist outpatient clinics at Queensland public hospitals, visit Specialist Services or Outpatient Clinics. Please also see our Data Quality Statement.

Initial service events in a specialist outpatient clinic by category
Percentage of patients waiting within the clinically recommended time for an initial service event by category
Median waiting time to an initial service event by category
Quarterly information for Specialist Outpatient at 01 July 2023
Patients waiting for an initial service event in a specialist outpatient clinic Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Total
Medical 306 1,596 1,267 3,169
Surgical 314 2,044 4,377 6,735
total 620 3,640 5,644 9,904
Quarterly information for Specialist Outpatient at 01 July 2023
% Patients waiting within the clinically recommended time Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Total
Cardiac Surgery - - - -
Cardiology 100% 85.4% 96.1% 91.4%
Dermatology 100% 98.1% 98.5% 98.4%
Diabetes - - - -
Ear Nose and Throat 90% 83.7% 79% 79.8%
Endocrinology 100% 100% 100% 100%
Gastroenterology 98.4% 98.1% 100% 98.3%
General Medicine 94.1% 90.5% 97.9% 93.5%
General Surgery 95.8% 85.7% 87.4% 87.1%
Geriatrics - - - -
Gynaecology 100% 89.6% 99.3% 92.9%
Medical Other 96.9% 100% 100% 99.7%
Nephrology 100% 100% 100% 100%
Neurology 100% 100% 100% 100%
Neurosurgery 100% 99.3% 100% 99.7%
Obstetrics - - - -
Oncology 100% 100% 100% 100%
Ophthalmology 100% 89.8% 91.5% 91.2%
Orthopaedic 100% 93.6% 99.2% 98.6%
Paediatric Medicine - - - -
Paediatric Surgery - - - -
Pain Management - - - -
Palliative Care 100% 100% - 100%
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 100% 100% 79.2% 85.9%
Respiratory 100% 95.6% 95.1% 95.7%
Rheumatology 100% 97% 96.6% 96.8%
Surgical Other 100% 91.4% 85.2% 87.8%
Urology 98.9% 97.1% 99.3% 98.1%
Vascular Surgery 90% 98.1% 100% 99.2%
Quarterly information for Specialist Outpatient for April, May, June 2023
Initial service events in a specialist outpatient clinic Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Total
Medical 1,322 1,985 461 3,768
Surgical 1,743 2,262 1,154 5,159
total 3,065 4,247 1,615 8,927
Quarterly information for Specialist Outpatient for April, May, June 2023
90th percentile waiting times for patients (days) Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Total
Cardiac Surgery - - - -
Cardiology 29 124 483 371
Dermatology 31 115 393 361
Diabetes - - - -
Ear Nose and Throat 31 106 512 446
Endocrinology 27 93 360 104
Gastroenterology 30 109 371 104
General Medicine 31 86 265 90
General Surgery 30 119 426 386
Geriatrics - - - -
Gynaecology 29 102 367 107
Medical Other 29 88 327 97
Nephrology 23 80 358 350
Neurology 27 77 348 311
Neurosurgery 29 87 847 539
Obstetrics - - - -
Oncology 27 87 265 35
Ophthalmology 28 106 419 406
Orthopaedic 18 84 297 258
Paediatric Medicine - - - -
Paediatric Surgery - - - -
Pain Management - 80 - 80
Palliative Care 22 83 - 24
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 28 87 715 618
Respiratory 30 130 531 490
Rheumatology 28 89 405 352
Surgical Other 28 125 511 452
Urology 29 121 399 180
Vascular Surgery 29 102 303 102

All data is preliminary and subject to change. "-" indicates data not available to determine calculation or not applicable.

Source: Queensland Health Specialist Outpatient Collection.

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