A 75 per cent cap was placed on overnight, non-urgent elective surgery in public and private hospitals across NSW on October 25 to help the health system cope with the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.
“The 75 per cent cap on overnight, non-urgent elective surgery in public and private hospitals can now be safely removed due to the very high rates of vaccination in NSW and stable levels of community transmission,” a statement from the department said. “The NSW Government is providing $30 million to support private hospitals to undertake additional elective surgery on behalf of the NSW Health system to ensure that patients who have their non-urgent day surgery elective surgery postponed will be scheduled for surgery as soon as possible.”
These procedures can range from anywhere from hip replacements, to tonsillectomies, to cosmetic surgery.
How about masks?
Hope no one needs any of the ICU beds that are filled with covid positive anti vaxxers
Govt. providing extra funds but how about NSWHealth publish up to date hospital waiting list times for all hospitals and all Categories - updated each month - somewhere easy for the public to find!