{"id":170,"date":"2024-10-31T08:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prod.celium.au\/?p=170"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:26:38","slug":"ed-waiting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celium.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/ed-waiting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"ED Waiting Times and Theatre Cancellations &#8211; A symptom of a Hospital in logjam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-50df572c402f3917328dcec2a0f81d1c\"><strong>Australia&#8217;s hospital systems are under immense pressure and across the country, emergency departments are struggling to keep up with demand. This is not a new problem and emergency departments are overwhelmed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1809b813eb4d4bb296a1885638e4e95a\">Only 55% of presentations are completed within four hours nationally &#8211; down from 69% five years ago. For Category 2 (emergency) cases, one in three patients aren\u2019t seen within the 10-minute benchmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3e40d6e2ad0ef4d88dcccd483a7ef065\">This overcrowding has downstream effects. Theatre lists are cancelled due to bed shortages, clinicians are forced to delay urgent cases and hospitals enter a perpetual Code Black. In Orange Base Hospital alone, cancer and emergency surgeries have been regularly cancelled due to capacity issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-14cef447646d2750c650ce1f618ae16b\">Celium Technologies is on a mission to break this notorious cycle with our innovative Health Tech Platform which is designed to:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e59c6809d7fad81313f3b9abd83b5e0b\">Accelerate discharge readiness, ensuring bed status is known and tasks completed sooner.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d0c23a639119e51fe0b00dfde8ebb29c\">Improve bed turnover, integrating Environmental Services, wards people, and clinical staff into a single prioritised workflow.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-e28e4bee550795b8bcb92fa136759758\">Streamline patient throughput, creating predictability in ward movements.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-d2c82b697bcb6fc3b539d3a7ed96c328\">Reduce Emergency Department wait times and ambulance ramping by making beds available faster.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-f953d91831e52b4bc7a904221fdd3c4a\">Minimise day-of-surgery cancellations by identifying bed availability early for elective planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-07-at-08.20.19-e1754883227671.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/2;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-07-at-08.20.19-e1754883227671.jpeg 739w, https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-07-at-08.20.19-e1754883227671-296x300.jpeg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-body-text-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-77b2d038badc1b596feb359cb4b0615d\">By closing communication gaps and prioritising discharge-related tasks in real time, we return flow and flexibility to hospital systems. This means patients move through safely and efficiently and theatres don\u2019t sit empty while staff scramble for beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-custom-content-position is-position-top-left wp-duotone-dark-grayscale\" style=\"margin-top:0;padding-top:5vw;padding-right:5vw;padding-bottom:5vw;padding-left:5vw;min-height:249px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-161\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/contact-us-page1.png\" style=\"object-position:55% 28%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"55% 28%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/contact-us-page1.png 800w, https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/contact-us-page1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/contact-us-page1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/celium.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/contact-us-page1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-primary-background-color has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a is-vertical is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2890af74 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-base-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1d52b26c78d399181ec3c7f04000a1b2\">To learn more about Celium Technologies Mission, or for investment interest, <br>reach out to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/celium.au\/index.php\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s hospital systems are under immense pressure and across the country, emergency departments are struggling to keep up with demand. This is not a new problem and emergency departments are overwhelmed.\u00a0 Only 55% of presentations are completed within four hours nationally &#8211; down from 69% five years ago. 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