Tony Lupton - Speech
Alfred Centre for Elective Surgery
March 2007
The Alfred Centre for Elective Surgery built by the Bracks Government in Prahran is now open and treating patients. This is the first dedicated centre for public elective surgery in Victoria.
I was delighted to be with the Premier when he opened the flagship Alfred Centre on March 5, 2007. Not only is this the most advanced elective surgery centre in Australia but it is a model of patient-centred care that will revolutionize the management of elective surgical procedures.
The Centre will treat 40,000 patients in its first full year of operation. When it reaches capacity, the Alfred Centre will treat 20,000 inpatients and 28,000 outpatients each year.
With a full range of diagnostic services, four operating theatres, two endoscopy suites and 125 beds and recovery chairs, the Alfred Centre will manage a patient’s entire journey from diagnosis to treatment, post-operative care and rehabilitation.
Patients will receive a range of treatments such as orthopaedic, urology, vascular, endoscopic and plastic surgery as well as blood transfusions, imaging, biopsies and preparatory work for surgery.
Removing elective surgery from the Alfred hospital to the adjacent Alfred Centre ensures that a patient’s surgery will be carried out on the planned date as elective surgery will no longer be cancelled or postponed because of the arrival of emergency trauma patients.
The Alfred Centre is the centerpiece in the Bracks Governmant’s plan to reduce the time patients wait for non-emergency surgery.
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