THE NSW Government is continuing to rebuild essential health services by investing $23M to reduce overdue surgeries as part of the 2025-26 Budget.
The Government will invest $23M to reduce the number of planned surgeries waiting longer than clinically recommended.
This additional funding is expected to enable an additional 3,500 surgeries to be completed over the next year.
It comes as the latest Bureau of Health Information quarterly data shows overdue surgeries have increased by 1,745 patients, to 8,587, in the past quarter.
This is down from around 14,000 in March 2023, when the NSW Government established the Surgical Care Governance
Taskforce, but an increase from around 2,000 in mid-2024.
Meanwhile, there is encouraging data coming out of Western Sydney Local Health District emergency departments over the past year to the March 2025 quarter. Non urgent presentations decreased/improved by 452 or 11.9%
The percentage of patients transferred from paramedics to ED staff within 30 minutes was at 78.6% This was an improvement of 10.80%.
