About this item

Issue date:
11 July 2011
Status:
Current
Corporate Author:
Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora
Document date:
11 July 2011
Type:
Report
Topic:
Diseases and conditions
Location:
National
Copyright status:

© Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

ISBN:
978-0-478-37476-6 (online), 978-0-478-3780-3 (print)

This publication looks at the work of the National Cardiac Surgery Clinical Network, and their work with the National Health Board (NHB)and District Health Boards (DHBs) throughout New Zealand to help reduce patient waiting times to levels never achieved before.

Significant progress has been made in increasing the volume of cardiac surgery operations, improving the geographic equity of cardiac surgery provision, enhancing the effectiveness of clinical prioritisation, and reducing the number of patients waiting for surgery.