TY - Report PY - 2013 T1 - Australian hospital statistics: national emergency access and elective surgery targets 2012 PB - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare DO - https://doi.org/APO-32989 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/32989 AB - This report presents 2012 data for performance indicators in the National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services. It includes measures of the extent to which states and territories met targets for emergency department lengths of stay of four hours or less, and for lengths of time spent waiting for elective surgery. It is being released on 28 February 2013, two months after the end of the 2012 reporting period, the date by which most of the data are required by the Council of Australian Governments Reform Council. ER -