Almost 30 per cent of patients did not start their treatment on time when admitted to Bowral and District Hospital's emergency department in the last quarter of 2018, according to new figures.
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The Bureau of Health Information's (BHI) quarterly report has revealed that 71.8 per cent of people started treatment on time from October to December 2018, compared with 70.7 per cent in the same quarter in 2017.
In the last 2018 quarter, 5043 people presented to the emergency department with 4944 cases classified as emergency presentations or unplanned return visits.
This was 24 less people presenting to the emergency department, compared to the 2017 quarter.
Twenty-three per cent of patients did not leave the emergency department within four hours of arriving.
In terms of elective surgery, there were 393 procedures performed, with the most common being cataract extraction.
Other common procedures included hysteroscopy, cholecystectomy, total knee replacements and total hip replacements.
Every elective surgery was performed on time, except cholecystectomy procedures, which had a 95.8 per cent on time rate.
At the end of the 2018 quarter, there were 360 people on a waiting list for cataract extractions and 173 in line for a total knee replacement.
There were 90 people on a waiting list for a total hip replacement, 30 people for an inguinal herniorrhaphy and 11 people for a hysteroscopy.
At Liverpool Hospital, 97 cent per cent of patients received elective surgery on time, while 98.4 per cent of patients at Campbelltown received their surgeries on time.
