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Sunshine Coast University 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 568 2,917 2,109 5,594
Surgical 737 3,694 7,559 11,990
total 1,305 6,611 9,668 17,584
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 77.8% 100% 100% 84.6%
Cardiology 86.5% 97.1% 99.2% 96.7%
Dermatology 61.4% 39.7% 96.2% 50.4%
Diabetes - - - -
Ear Nose and Throat 92.7% 21% 53.9% 49.3%
Endocrinology 100% 100% 100% 100%
Gastroenterology 52.9% 27.5% 50% 33.1%
General Medicine 80% 97.4% 100% 97.7%
General Surgery 96.2% 83.9% 99.9% 95.1%
Geriatrics 87.5% 100% - 97.1%
Gynaecology 100% 88.3% 87.4% 87.8%
Medical Other 73.9% 55.6% 79.4% 60.7%
Nephrology 100% 94.2% 100% 98.4%
Neurology 77.3% 36.4% 76.3% 47.5%
Neurosurgery - - - -
Obstetrics 91.7% 93% 99.6% 98.4%
Oncology 100% 100% - 100%
Ophthalmology - - - -
Orthopaedic 97.4% 22.6% 45.5% 42%
Paediatric Medicine 80% 98.5% 98.6% 98.4%
Paediatric Surgery 100% 40.8% 98.3% 65.4%
Pain Management - - - -
Palliative Care - - - -
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 46.7% 42.7% 71.5% 50.1%
Respiratory 78.2% 55% 81.8% 63.2%
Rheumatology 42.3% 28.5% 84.8% 47.7%
Surgical Other 100% 50% 76.5% 75%
Urology 31.3% 14.7% 52.9% 23.1%
Vascular Surgery 78.9% 82.2% 97.7% 90.9%
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 2,857 1,870 1,615 6,342
Surgical 3,543 1,041 739 5,323
total 6,400 2,911 2,354 11,665
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 41 69 - 54
Cardiology 63 102 342 174
Dermatology 63 280 461 266
Diabetes - - - -
Ear Nose and Throat 29 466 917 729
Endocrinology 36 69 130 83
Gastroenterology 60 286 - 263
General Medicine 21 94 136 94
General Surgery 27 107 350 328
Geriatrics 36 62 - 50
Gynaecology 28 132 571 203
Medical Other 54 268 476 189
Nephrology 42 83 279 204
Neurology 27 343 601 328
Neurosurgery - - - -
Obstetrics 28 96 146 134
Oncology 27 91 336 28
Ophthalmology - - - -
Orthopaedic 15 502 843 176
Paediatric Medicine 23 85 337 286
Paediatric Surgery 45 182 455 370
Pain Management - - - -
Palliative Care 122 - - 122
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 71 243 642 255
Respiratory 52 419 734 402
Rheumatology 161 675 664 625
Surgical Other 22 118 515 161
Urology 210 604 - 248
Vascular Surgery 36 122 353 333

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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