Due to the backlog of elective surgery in Australia, the patient may have to wait longer than before or try Singapore and Malaysia as an option

1. At a time when trade relations with China are at all-time low, Australian
manufacturers are looking out for options and searching for device component
suppliers, surgical instruments, disposables and more. SG Analytics suggests
that new opportunity awaits manufacturers and suppliers in Australian
healthcare market in Q4, 2020 and H1, 2021.
1) Poor Integration - federal and state funding so often
result in disconnected and competing health systems
2) More weightage on Acute illness than preventive cure
GAPS
1) Digital care roadmap released in 2020.
2) Spike in Tele-Health- Between March and early
September, 29.6 million Medicare-eligible telehealth
services were delivered to 10.4 million patients,
covering medicare benefits worth AU$1.52 billion
3) Long wait times for elective surgeries at public hospitals
expected to spike private care market in Australia or
look for options under Medical tourism to Singapore
and Malaysia.
OPPORTUNITIES
More than 10,000 patients were on the
waiting list longer than the clinically
recommended time in the June quarter
5
431
110
0
2019
2020 2,179
8,379
Source: NSW Bureau of Health Information | Getthedata
Urgent Semi-urgent Non-urgent
Sources
2. Activity and Performance. Bureau of Health Information, New South Wales Government. 2020.
3. Patients waiting for treatment. Victorian Agency for Health Information, Victorian Government. 2020.
4. Number of elective surgery cases on wait list as of end of month. Department of Health, Government of Western Australia. 2020.
5. Elective surgery dashboard. SA Health, Government of South Australia. 2020.
New South Wales
New South Wales saw a 20.1% increase to
the number of patients on elective surgery
waiting lists in the second quarter of 2020
compared to the same time last year, while
the number of surgeries performed was
down 39.4%. The number of patients on
the waiting list at the end of June was
101,026.2
Western Australia
Western Australia had a 19.19% increase
in the total number of patients on a waiting
list compared in July 2020 compared to July
2019. While most patients were seen within
an appropriate timeframe for their condition,
3,271 patients waited longer than the
recommended timeframe—an increase
of 160.85%.4
Victoria
Victoria had 56,039 patients on the waiting
list as of 30 June 2020, an increase of over
40% compared to the same period in 2019.3
South Australia
South Australia had 19,861 patients ready
for surgery as of 16 September 2020, 1,642
of which were overdue. Across all surgical
specialties in the state’s public hospitals, all
but two specialties had patients who were
overdue for surgery, as of 16 September
2020.5
in Australian healthcare system
ELECTIVE SURGERY
OPENS OPPORTUNITY
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