> In Fiscal Year 2024/25, there were 222 booking records cancelled and removed f rom the Interior Health (IH) wait list due to the death of the patient while they waited f or their surgical date. There were 59 various types of procedures cancelled due to patient death; Cataracts had 86 (39%), followed by Arthroplasty Knee Replacements 17 (8%)
Also, for this particular regional health authority, only 38% of these wait time were above the target.
> 85 bookings (38%) had been waiting over the clinical benchmark wait time target for that surgery type at the date of patient death.
So yes, most of these death have nothing to do with excessive wait time of patient whose death would have been preventable with another system.
