Hospitals face backlog of 400,000 patients waiting for elective surgery

Australians waiting for many elective procedures could still face long delays despite a federal easing of restrictions announced on Friday as hospitals grapple with a backlog of more than 400,000 cancelled operations - including 25,000 cancer surgeries.

Newcastle colorectal surgeon Peter Pockney, a member of the organising committee for the CovidSurg project, said it would take an estimated 10 months to clear the backlog if elective surgery was increased to 110 per cent of pre-pandemic capacity. Professor Murphy said Australia's hospitals were currently operating at between 50 and 60 per cent of capacity after beginning to slowly increase elective surgery in recent weeks and that "everybody is now heading towards full elective surgery".With only about 50 COVID-19 patients in hospitals around Australia, including 12 on ventilators in intensive care units, he said "there is now pretty good room for further expansion".

This is another complete COVID-19 nonsense. For weeks we’ve had around 1000 active cases, a fraction of which probably need hospitalisation. 1200 hospitals nationwide can’t deal with that? ScottMorrisonMP keeps saying we have a first class health care system.

Backlogging operations, and reducing the percentage of Elective Surgeries available is more deadly than this first wave of your Covid19 conspiracy.

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