Official information request details
Wait times for five common elective procedures: knee replacement, hip replacement, hernia surgery, colonoscopy, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- For each procedure, please say how many people met the clinical threshold and were accepted as needing the procedure each year for the past five years.
- For each procedure, please say how many elective procedures were performed each year for the past five years.
- For each procedure, what was the average wait time from acceptance (referral accepted and meets threshold) to the procedure being performed each year for the past five years.
- For each procedure, what was the longest single wait time from acceptance to the procedure being performed? Please provide the information for each year for the past five years.
- If there has been an increase in wait times, what was the reason?
