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Victoria elective surgery wait times blow out after second COVID-19 wave – The Australian

Victoria’s second coronavirus wave has caused wait times for elective surgery to blow out, with thousands more on wait lists compared with the same time last year….

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  • By Anthony Piovesan
  • NCA NewsWire
  • 1:41PM November 5, 2020
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Victorias second coronavirus wave has caused wait times for elective surgery to blow out, with thousands more on wait lists compared with the same time last year.
Latest quarterly Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI) data shows 66,242 Victorians are waiting for operations surgery as of September 2020 compared with 44,860 at the same time last year.
Most category 2 and all of category 3 elective surgery was cancelled during…

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