Victoria is facing a massive challenge to deliver its COVID catch-up plan as documents show the state is yet to hit the 20,000 monthly elective surgeries needed.
Victoria has failed to hit its target for monthly elective surgeries needed to clear the COVID-19 backlog, according to a leaked briefing note.despite its $1.5 billion investment, peak health bodies say.
, has shown Victoria needs to deliver 20,000 surgeries a month to hit the target. The best result since the catch-up program began was 18,127 surgeries completed in March. COVID-19 waves in winter 2022 and at the end of last year were stronger than predicted and the state government says the pressure on the system, alongside the large numbers of staff furloughed during this period, slowed the recovery effort.There were still significant delays in getting people on to a waiting list, to meet a surgeon and to have an operation done, she said.
Reforms to the surgical system could include finding alternative therapies for those on the waitlist.It will aim to improve elective surgery through major changes, better predicting pressures on the system and preparing a “system-wide” approach, the documents show. Patrick Lo, chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Victoria, said Victoria was making inroads but would face another peak in the waiting list if resources or support were not maintained.
Lo, a paediatric neurosurgeon, said it was also important to look at how different types of surgery were performing.
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