1162 Days Spent Waiting to See A Specialist: And That Ain’t The Record!
Consider the case of poor Graeme Turnley of St Albans Park. Mr Turnley has told the Geelong Advertiser that he ‘has waited for a consultation with a urologist since receiving a letter confirming his place on the waiting list in April 2003′.
According to the paper:
In the original letter, Mr Turnley was told he would have to wait 26 weeks for a consultation. Barwon Health later told him that wait would extend to 34 months, which passed by in February this year, before he received a phone call last Thursday asking if he wanted to remain on the list.
Sadly Mr Turnley’s case is far from isolated. According to the Auditor-General’s report, Access to specialist medical outpatient care, released last week, Victorians are waiting years to see urologists and other specialist.
Waiting lists for outpatient appointments are a hidden scandal in Victoria. The A-G found that the DHS keeps almost no records of how many people are waiting to see specialists, nor for how long they are waiting. As The Age commented ‘the number of people on the lists are only ever approximation’.
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