Auditor-General’s report published

Auditor-General’s report published: Delivering scheduled services to patients – Progress in responding to the Auditor-General’s recommendation

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In 2011, we published a report that looked at the progress that the Ministry of Health and district health boards (DHBs) had made towards achieving the objectives of a strategy released in 2000 to reduce waiting times for public hospital elective services. In December 2013, we published our first follow-up report. Today, we have published a second follow-up report, which should be read alongside our 2013 report.

We found that although some patients have waited longer than the assigned time frames for services, the number of people is within the small “buffers” allowed.

Progress continues to be made in preparing and implementing tools to prioritise patients for treatment, which should lead to greater consistency in getting access to services throughout the country.

From 2011 to 2015, more people per 10,000 population had access to scheduled surgery and the gap between the DHBs with the highest and lowest intervention rates narrowed.

Read our follow-up report on our website.

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