新南威尔士州政府斥资 7400 万美元用于私立医院，以减少亨特新英格兰卫生区因疫情导致的选择性手术积压。 NSW government spent $74m on private hospitals to reduce pandemic-induced elective surgery backlog in Hunter New England Health district.

新南威尔士州政府四年内花费了 7400 万美元用于私立医院，以减少疫情期间亨特新英格兰卫生区的选择性手术积压。 The NSW government spent $74m over four years on private hospitals to reduce the elective surgery backlog in the Hunter New England Health district during the pandemic. 通过“协作护理”计划分配的资金将于 2021 年 12 月 31 日结束。 The funding, allocated through the "collaborative care" program, ended on December 31, 2021. 尽管做出了努力，但医生报告称，公立医院在完成紧急和非紧急手术方面仍然存在问题，2020 年 1 月至 2023 年 12 月期间，14 家私立医院共进行了 8,620 例手术。 Despite the efforts, doctors report ongoing issues in completing urgent and non-urgent surgeries in the public system, with 8,620 surgeries performed from January 2020 to December 2023 at 14 private hospitals.