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Speaker 1: Health Enz's released a big review of its care over

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Speaker 1: the past decade. Some stuff's better, patient fools are better,

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Speaker 1: infection's better patient mortality. They've improved on that, but more

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Speaker 1: people are waiting for longer than four months to see

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Speaker 1: a specialist. Richard Sullivan's health end Z chief Clinical Officeries

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Speaker 1: with me. Now, Hi Hello, Ryan, Yeah, good, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So let's get straight into this. One of the numbers.

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Speaker 1: So one of the numbers here is a specialist assessment

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Speaker 1: wait times. People are waiting more than four months, and

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Speaker 1: that number is four times the number that we're waiting

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Speaker 1: pre COVID February twenty twenty. Is this all down to COVID?

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Speaker 2: A lot of this, Ryan, that's right. You know, the

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Speaker 2: time for a patient to be seen by a hostile

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Speaker 2: specialist has increased significantly, and COVID played a part in that.

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Speaker 2: We saw that grow post COVID, but we saw it

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Speaker 2: grow even further. We've had a real focus on this area.

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Speaker 2: We started to see the numbers stabilized. We've seen a

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Speaker 2: smaller provement, but we've got a long way to go.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the health targets reaching ninety five percent.

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Speaker 2: We're currently sitting at around sixty. So we've got a

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Speaker 2: big focus on and breving that.

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Speaker 1: How long does it take you? So we're at sixty

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Speaker 1: percent of where we should be. We need to get

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Speaker 1: to ninety five How long does that take?

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Speaker 2: Look? There there are tens of thousands, if not you know,

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Speaker 2: over close to one hundred thousand people on that list.

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Speaker 2: So that is going to take us some time because

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Speaker 2: we need to continue to see those people be will

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Speaker 2: fit in as well as get people off the list.

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Speaker 2: So we're having a real focus on those patients who

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Speaker 2: are waiting beyond one hundred and twenty days. We equally

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Speaker 2: a really important focus on those you have the greatest

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Speaker 2: clinical need. So this is going to take us many

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Speaker 2: years to bring ourselves to ninety five percent. We have

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Speaker 2: a plan in place with a key targets within that

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Speaker 2: that we need to meet so we can get back on.

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Speaker 1: Back and do you know how many years? How many

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Speaker 1: years before we get to ninety.

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Speaker 2: Look we've got a twenty thirty target. That's you know,

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Speaker 2: that's sort of five sixty five years away, a long time,

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Speaker 2: but that is there is a real you know, to

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Speaker 2: get ourselves to their place.

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Speaker 1: All right, really appreciate your time. This afternoon from Healthy

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