Dear Department of Health,

If possible, please treat this as an administrative or informal request. Otherwise, please consider this a request under the FOI Act.

I am trying to understand activity levels in our public health system, specifically in acute HHS hospitals. I have searched online for this data and recent data is not available, nor is there a source where I am able to see trends over a significant time period and compare this for various HHS acute hospitals.

I would like to request the following data for each HHS's in Australia. If this complete data set is not available could I request the data for Queensland (and each individual state, but Queensland is my main focus). I would ideally like this data for a period of the last 5 financial years so I can look at trends.

Emergency Department monthly data by urgency category for the following:
- Number of attendances
- Patients seen within clinically recommended times
- Median waiting time to treatment (in minutes)
- Percentage of patients who did not wait for treatment
- Patients admitted to an inpatient bed
- Patients whose ED stay was within four hours
- Number of patients who left after treatment commenced
- Percentage of patients who left after treatment commenced
- Number of patients who did not wait for treatment

Monthly elective surgery information by urgency category
-Number of patients treated
-Variation in number of patients treated
-Patients treated within the clinically recommended time
-Number of patients waiting
- Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended time – ready for surgery
- Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended time – not ready for surgery
-Patients waiting within the clinically recommended time – ready for surgery

Monthly elective surgery information on patients treated in turn
- Category 2 and 3 patients treated in turn

Monthly elective surgery information by surgical specialty
-Number of patients treated
-Variation in number of patients treated
-Patients treated within the clinically recommended time
-Number of patients waiting
-Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended time – ready for surgery
-Number of patients waiting longer than the clinically recommended time – not ready for surgery
-Patients waiting within the clinically recommended time – ready for surgery

Quarterly elective surgery information by urgency category
-Median waiting time to treatment (days)
-90th percentile waiting time to treatment (days)

Quarterly elective surgery information by surgical specialty
-Median waiting time to treatment (days)
-90th percentile waiting time to treatment (days)

Quarterly hospital activity information
-Patient admissions
-Same day admissions
-Overnight admissions
-Emergency admissions
-Outpatient services
-Babies born

Quarterly information for Specialist Outpatients
-Patients waiting for an initial service event in a specialist outpatient clinic (non-surgical & surgical)
-% Patients waiting within the clinically recommended time (by clinic specialty)

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,

Roy Elliot

Dear FOI Officer,

Thank you for your response. I will contact each respective authority.

Yours sincerely,

Roy Elliot