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Elective Surgery

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Elective Surgery

Elective Surgery
  • Emergency Care
  • Elective Surgery
  • Nurse-to-patient Ratios

Elective Surgery is planned surgery that can be booked in advance. The planned surgical procedure is a result of an assessment with a patient’s treating specialist. Patients are prioritised for elective surgery based on their health condition and symptoms. The treating specialist will assign a patient’s category at the time of their assessment and are placed on an elective surgery wait list or register. 

To provide a comprehensive picture of the elective surgery urgency, waiting times are guided by three categories. The clinically recommended timeframes for a patient to receive their elective surgery are:

Category 1 – elective surgery required within 30 calendar days 
Category 2 – elective surgery required within 90 calendar days
Category 3 – elective surgery required within 365 calendar days.

In some specialities there are high numbers of patients waiting to receive their elective surgery, which may result in patients waiting longer than clinically recommended.

For further information about elective surgery at Queensland public hospitals, visit Operations and surgical procedures | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au) or Waiting lists | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au).

Quarterly elective surgery information by urgency category for April, May, June 2023
Indicators Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Total
Number of patients treated 770 1,074 810 2,654
Patients treated within the clinically recommended times 97.1% 81.2% 75.4% 84.1%
Number of patients waiting 166 979 2,635 3,780
Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended times – ready for surgery 0 49 112 161
Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended times – not ready for surgery 0 4 8 12
Patients waiting within the clinically recommended times – ready for surgery 100% 94.6% 95.6% 95.5%
Quarterly elective surgery information by surgical specialty for April, May, June 2023
Indicators C-T ENT GEN GYN NEU OPH ORT P&R URO VAS OTH
Number of patients treated 14 109 391 481 126 356 324 375 433 45 0
Patients treated within the clinically recommended times 100% 72.5% 85.7% 92.7% 98.4% 93.3% 84.3% 81.6% 64% 100% 0%
Number of patients waiting 2 233 406 563 98 634 493 652 670 29 0
Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended times – ready for surgery 0 18 0 13 0 0 4 29 97 0 0
Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended times – not ready for surgery 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
Patients waiting within the clinically recommended times – ready for surgery 100% 91.7% 100% 97.6% 100% 100% 99.1% 95.3% 84.9% 100% 0%
Quaterly elective surgery supporting information by urgency category for April, May, June 2023
Indicators Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Total
Median waiting time to treatment (days) 16 54 288 42
90th percentile waiting time to treatment (days) 29 112 513 333
Quarterly elective surgery supporting information by surgical specialty for April, May, June 2023
Indicators C-T ENT GEN GYN NEU OPH ORT P&R URO VAS OTH
Median waiting time to treatment (days) 4 81 29 32 20 49 63 43 52 23 -
90th percentile waiting time to treatment (days) 5 582 322 327 78 300 379 387 233 279 -

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

Source: HBCIS Elective Admissions Module, Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)

Note: A median value is not displayed where there are less than 10 patients treated.

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