AMBULANCES are responding faster to life-threatening emergencies in the city of Greater Shepparton, while elective surgery waiting lists are at record lows.
The latest performance data released today shows the Andrews Labor Government’s major health funding boosts and reforms to Victoria’s ambulance system are delivering big benefits to Shepparton patients when they need it most.
For GV Health, the data shows the hospital reduced the number of patients on the elective surgery waiting list – from 759 at the end of the March quarter to 587 at the end of June, admitted 815 patients from the elective surgery waiting list for the June quarter, provided elective surgery to 100 percent of Category 1 urgent patients within the benchmark 30 days and more than half within eight days and provided elective surgery to 82 percent of Category 2 semi-urgent patients within the benchmark 90 days in the June quarter, which is up by 5 percent from three months earlier.
In the city of Greater Shepparton, 83.7 percent of ambulances were reported to be arriving within 15 minutes for Code One emergencies, up from 80.6 percent compared to the year earlier. The average time for an ambulance to reach the scene of a Code One emergency in Shepparton over the same period has improved from 11:32 minutes to 11:16 minutes.
