Waiting times - some better, some worse
The VOHA website has now updated all of the Victorian public dental waiting times in the light of new information published by the Department of Human Services in the last week.
The bad news for 11 out of the Unlucky 13 rural areas is that their waiting times have deteriorated over a period of nine months (September 2006 versus December 2005).
Patients on the lists at Moe and Churchill clinics have 66 months to wait for treatment, those at Sale will wait 63 months and those in Warrnambool 58 months.
Two rural clinics in the Unlucky 13 have improved. Ballarat patients now only have to wait 47 months (down 6 months) while Portland patients have halved their wait time from 66 months to 33 months.
The bad news for metropolitan areas is that waiting times for dentures deteriorated at seven of the Unliucky 13 Metropolitan clinics. Patients waiting at eight of those 13 clinics will not receive their new dentures for three years or more.
The Minister for Health, Bronwyn Pike, issued a media release about the new waiting times yesterday.
The bad news for 11 out of the Unlucky 13 rural areas is that their waiting times have deteriorated over a period of nine months (September 2006 versus December 2005).
Patients on the lists at Moe and Churchill clinics have 66 months to wait for treatment, those at Sale will wait 63 months and those in Warrnambool 58 months.
Two rural clinics in the Unlucky 13 have improved. Ballarat patients now only have to wait 47 months (down 6 months) while Portland patients have halved their wait time from 66 months to 33 months.
The bad news for metropolitan areas is that waiting times for dentures deteriorated at seven of the Unliucky 13 Metropolitan clinics. Patients waiting at eight of those 13 clinics will not receive their new dentures for three years or more.
The Minister for Health, Bronwyn Pike, issued a media release about the new waiting times yesterday.
posted by Garry Pearson at 2:29 pm
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