Health targets fact sheet
Faster cancer
treatment
90 per cent of patients to
receive cancer management
within 31 days of the
Treated last
year
decision to treat
18,679
Shorter wait times wil mean
you and your whānau wil be
Treated
guided through complex
within 31d
cancer care pathways to
15,732
receive treatment sooner.
Improved immunisation
for children
95 per cent of children fully
immunised at 24 months of
Eligible
age
babies
*
Jan-Mar 2024
Better immunisation
15,460
coverage wil reduce the risk
of measles, mumps, rubella
Fully
and other infectious diseases
immunised
which can cause harm to
12,049
your baby.
Shorter stays in
emergency departments
(ED)
95 per cent of patients to be
admitted, discharged or
Seen in ED
transferred from an ED within
last year
six hours
1,229,603
Shorter wait times wil mean
you receive diagnosis,
Seen within
treatment, and progress
6 hrs
through to a hospital bed
845,452
(if needed) sooner.
Shorter wait times for
first specialist
assessment (FSA)
95 per cent of people wait
People
less than four months for a
waiting at
first specialist assessment
end of year
194,277
Shorter wait times wil mean
you are seen by a hospital
Waiting
specialist sooner who wil
<4 mths
start plans for your condition.
119,427
Shorter wait times for
elective treatment
95 per cent of people wait
less than four months for
People
elective treatment
waiting at
end of year
79,407
Shorter wait times wil mean
Waiting <4
you receive your elective
mths
treatment sooner.
49,104
* Last published quarter Jan-Mar 2024. Result excludes 33 children with unknown region.
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