Public patients wait 8 months to see specialists in Western Australia

HBF website will show us wait times for elective surgery in a public hospital, and how that compares to the private hospital system in Australia.

Fiona Stanley Hospital Source: Photographs by Gnangarra...commons.wikimedia.org Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC BY 2.5 AU)

At the end of December 2017, almost 80,000 people (79,517) were still waiting for a first appointment with a specialist in Western Australia. Of these, 50 per cent had been waiting more than 267 days (8.78 months).

In comparison, in the private system, the average time to see a specialist for a first appointment is 14 - 21 days.

Leung Tsang-wing explains the details.