North Shore (09) 486 8900
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Governance

Quarterly Upper GI Cancer Group

Includes representatives from the areas of surgery, anaesthesia, intensive care, interventional radiology, nutrition, nursing.

Meets quarterly to improve the quality of care for UGI cancer patients through:

  • identification and implementation of service improvement initiatives  
  • clinical  review and audit of all patients who have had an UGI cancer operation 

Department of Surgery

The upper GI unit is part of the Department of Surgery at North Shore Hospital and participates in the department's weekly journal club and audit process.

Annual Referrals

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Number new referrals 789 846 985 1006 1029 1112 1107
Number new patients seen 743 814 977 998 987 1009 1089
Number multidisciplinary meetings 78 79 78 79 79 76 77

Faster Cancer Treatment Targets

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
First specialist appointment within 14 days of referral 84% 86% 85% 91% 89% 84% 81%
First treatment within 62 days of referral 84% 88% 91% 90% 90% 87% 81%
Decision to treat to first treatment ≤ 31 days 90% 91% 95% 96% 94% 88% 83%

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