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June 13th, 2013 
NO state or territory has met all its elective surgery or emergency department targets set out in the $3.3 billion COAG partnership to improve public hospitals.
Some states came close to achieving all targets, but the first report on COAG’s health partnership found results were “mixed” overall.
NSW, Victoria and the Northern Territory performed worst against emergency department goals.
There, the proportion of emergency department patients admitted to hospital, referred on or discharged within four hours was below the 2010 baseline, according to the report.
Each state and territory had a target to reach last year, and has agreed to reach 90 per cent by 2015.
WA achieved its emergency department targets, and the ACT, Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia partially met theirs.
The ACT was the only state to meet all elective surgery targets.
COAG reform council chair John Brumby said although some targets had only been partially met there were some good performances from governments.
“These findings coupled with those in our recent report on the National Healthcare Agreement show that governments are taking steps to improve our health system, but they have their work cut out for them,” Mr Brumby said.
He said that with four years left in the agreement there was still time for governments to achieve timely emergency department and elective surgery care.
Queensland failed to meet the previous year’s baseline targets in six of the nine elective surgery categories, and only achieved its target in one.
Tasmania also only met one out of nine elective surgery targets.
Under the National Partnership on Improving Public Hospitals, reward payments of up to $400 million are available at the discretion of the Commonwealth.
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