The SA government releases its review into a week's worth of trials across the health system designed to improve its performance — but SA Health has stopped short of committing to implement all of the recommendations.
abc.net.au/news/sa-health-releases-focus-week-review/102689196SA Health has stopped short of committing to fully implementing recommendations from its own review based on a week of trials across the health system designed to improve its performance.The aim was to observe where bottlenecks were happening in the systemSA Health held what it called "Focus Week" from May 15 to 21, in which it cancelled non-clinical work and regular meetings.
Nearly three months later, SA Health has released its review of Focus Week which finds that despite a more than 6 per cent increase in triple-0 calls and a small increase in emergency department presentations, there was an 8 per cent decrease in the number of hours lost to ramping during that week. "But we still acknowledge we have got a long way to go to get our system to where we would really like it to be."75 per cent of priority one calls reached by ambulances within eight minutes, up 11 per cent146 patients discharged by midday on a daily basis, up from 132The most recent statistics show from May to June there was a 5.8 per cent increase in hours lost to ramping.
"We've got an ongoing commitment to reducing the hours lost, as well as the ambulance response times, and we continue to desire to do better.Doctors and nurses told SA Health it was often still too hard to discharge patients on a weekend to free up beds. "This was a one-week period… and it's not necessarily reflective that each of those would be successful over a much longer period of time," she said.
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