Elective Services Access and Management Policy
MP 0169/21 - Elective Services Access and Management Policy (pdf 143KB)
Applicable to: This policy is applicable to all Health Service Providers that provide elective services. This includes elective services provided to patients that choose to be treated as private patients.
Description: The Elective Services Access and Management Policy (the policy) has been developed to ensure clinically appropriate, consistent and equitable management of elective services patients and waiting lists in hospitals across Western Australia where public elective services are delivered. It sets out the mandatory requirements for Health Service Providers with respect to the delivery of patient-focused, evidence based elective services.
This policy must be read in conjunction with the Elective Services Access Standard, Excluded Procedures Manual, MP 0175/22 Consent to Treatment Policy, MP 0164/21 Patient Activity Data Policy and MP 0111/19 Performance Management Policy.
This policy is a mandatory requirement for Health Service Providers under the Clinical Services Planning and Programs Policy Framework pursuant to section 26(2)(c) of the Health Services Act 2016.
Date of effect: 30 September 2021
Policy Framework
Clinical Services Planning and Programs
Elective-Services-Access-Standard (pdf 611KB)
Excluded-Procedures-Manual (pdf 174KB)
WA Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Framework 2015 – 2030
WA Health Clinical Services Framework 2014 – 2024
Elective care waiting list episode – Elective care type, code N (2021), METeOR, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
National Elective Surgery Urgency Categorisation Guideline (2015), Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council
Questionable Care: Avoiding ineffective treatment, Grattan Institute, Duckett et al (2015)
Low-value care in Australian public hospitals: prevalence and trends over time, BMJ Quality and Safety