Elective surgery
Neurosurgery for July 2011–June 2012
Neurosurgery is surgery on the brain, spinal cord and nerves. Common procedures include removing tumours and blood clots, treatment of head or spinal injuries, repairing malformed blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord, repairing damaged nerves, and surgical treatment of diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. This page presents statistics relating to the hospital's performance of elective neurosurgery overall.
Waiting times provide an indication of access to elective surgery. The information presented here refers to the time spent on a waiting list by people who received elective surgery in this hospital between 1 July 2011 and 30 June 2012.
Median waiting times for elective surgery
The median waiting time is the number of days within which half of all patients at this hospital received their surgery.
All neurosurgery
55 days compared to the national average of 31 days
| Median waiting times (days) for this hospital compared to the national average | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | This hospital | National average | |
| 2011-12 | 55 days | 31 days |  |
| 2010-11 | 30 days | 34 days |  |
| 2009-10 | 30 days | 30 days |  |
People waiting more than 365 days for elective surgery
This shows the percentage of people who received elective surgery at this hospital during the 2011-12 year who had been waiting for more than one year (365 days) for their surgery.
All neurosurgery
1.0% waited more than 365 days compared to the national average of 2.7%
| Percentage of people waiting more than 365 days at this hospital compared to the national average | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | This hospital | National average | |
| 2011-12 | 1.0% | 2.7% |  |
| 2010-11 | 0.5% | 3.3% | |
| 2009-10 | 4.6% | 2.3% | |
Number of elective surgeries
The following graph shows the number of admissions for elective surgery for patients on a waiting list managed by the hospital. It does not include people on the waiting list who were admitted for surgery on an emergency basis, or people who received elective surgery without being placed on the hospital's waiting list.
| Surgical specialty | Number of surgeries |
|---|---|
| All neurosurgery |
405
|
| Number of elective surgeries for this hospital | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surgical specialty | Year | Number of surgeries |
| All neurosurgery | 2011-12 |
405
|
| All neurosurgery | 2010-11 |
422
|
| All neurosurgery | 2009-10 |
395
|