Record hospital admissions as doctors lash out on data

Record hospital admissions as doctors lash out on data

Author: AAP

Published: 12-09-2025

More people are going to a hospital in Australia's biggest healthcare system, as doctors claim critical figures are being hidden from the public.

NSW hospital admissions have hit record levels, with more than 515,000 admitted patient episodes in the quarter from April to June 2025, the latest Healthcare Quarterly report by the Bureau of Health Information says.

Nearly 65,000 elective surgeries were performed across NSW, the most in any other quarter since the bureau began reporting in 2010.

The number of patients on the waiting list at the end of June who had waited longer than clinically recommended for their surgery dropped to 2534 - down from 8588 at the end of March 2025.

But Australian Medical Association NSW president Kathryn Austin said stark figures were buried in the report released on Wednesday and questioned the bureau's presentation of data.

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