Thursday, 23 June 2022

Western Metropolitan Region

Dr CUMMING (Western Metropolitan) (12:41): (1867) My question is to the Minister for Health in the other place, and it is from a resident in Caroline Springs and another in North Sunshine. Will the minister please advise when we can expect surgery waiting times to improve so my constituents do not have to continue to suffer constant pain? Cathy’s daughter had to wait four years to have her tonsils removed, and her son is still on a waiting list and is being told it will be five years. Johanna has been diagnosed with chronic sinusitis and two polyps, and she has constant headaches and jaw pain. Last August she was put on a waiting list for the eye and ear hospital. She has recently been advised that the waiting list is nearly 1100 days. That will be four years after her diagnosis. This is not good enough. We need to know when these waiting list times will be reduced for my residents in the west.