By Casey Neill
Greater Dandenong hospital and ambulance patients are getting treatment faster, latest figures show.
Ambulance Victoria state-wide response time data released on Friday 28 October showed it responded to 84.1 per cent of code one calls in Greater Dandenong within the benchmark 15 minutes – up from 83.8 per cent in the September quarter last year.
Victorian Health Services Performance data released the same day showed fewer patients were on the Dandenong Hospital elective surgery waiting list – from 1801 at 30 September last year to 1557 at the same time this year.
The hospital treated 1633 patients from the elective surgery waiting list in the September quarter, up on the 1599 waiting list admissions in the same period last year.
It provided operations within the benchmark 30 days for 100 per cent of its 646 category one urgent elective surgery patients in the September quarter, and treated half of those patients within seven days.
The hospital admitted 9496 emergency patients in the three months to the end of September, up from 8914 during the same period in the previous year, and treated 100 per cent of the 61 category one emergency patients immediately on arrival.
Dandenong Hospital also admitted 163 neonatal intensive care babies during the September quarter, up from 126 admissions in the same quarter last year.
Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams said the latest hospital performance data confirmed that despite record demand on doctors, nurses and paramedics, “more patients are getting the treatment and surgeries they need sooner”.
“People in Dandenong waiting for surgery can also be confident they will receive their operations sooner,” she said.
