Campbelltown MP Greg Warren says a Bureau of Health Information report showed the needs of seriously ill residents in Campbelltown and the wider continued to be ignored.
The latest hospital quarterly (July 2018 to September 2018) was released today and showed more than 40 per cent of patients who presented to the Emergency Department didn’t leave within the desired four hour period.
The 41.3 per cent figure was worse than the 40.6 per cent figure recorded for the same period five years ago in 2013.
Mr Warren said the blowout in Emergency Department waiting times had been an issue this Liberal state government had been aware of since it came to power in 2011.
However, the government had failed to put any measures in place to address the issue.
In 2017 Premier Gladys Berejiklian appeared at Campbelltown Hospital for a photo opportunity to announce a $632 million upgrade of the hospital.
Mr Warren said any upgrades would be pointless unless the hospital had adequate resources and staff.
[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]“It’s an indisputable fact that emergency waiting times are worse in 2018 than what they were in 2013.[/social_quote]
“It beggars belief that a dire situation can actually deteriorate even further over a period of five years yet the state government do zero, zilch, nada, nothing to address the problem.
“It’s called an emergency department for a reason – people who go there need urgent care.
“Waiting four hours or more for that care is not an urgent response.’’
