Rescue in the crisis: This is how Vienna fights against long waiting times!

Rescue in the crisis: This is how Vienna fights against long waiting times!

Wien, Österreich - The Vienna Health Association, known as Wigev, has launched a new program to significantly shorten the waiting times for predictable operations. According to a press conference with health city councilor Peter Hacker and representatives of Premiqamed Privatkliniken GmbH, which act in partnership with WigEV, these measures become necessary, since 90 % of all rescue operations in Vienna are currently ending in a Wigev clinic, especially if the proportion even increases to 96 %. In 2024, 44 % of the operations carried out were classified as acute, which underlines the urgent need to increase the operating capacity for planned interventions to ensure health care in the city, such as wien.gv.at reported.

In addition, the specialist clinic Herz Jesus emphasizes that the city of Vienna is striving to optimize the health care of its population. The aim is that patients from other federal states are treated in their respective home region instead of in Vienna to reduce the number of external inquiries. Currently, the average waiting times for important interventions such as hip to-faceoprostheses are 34.9 days, knee-ontalendoprostheses are even 35 days. These figures show that despite all efforts to efficiency and transparency, as from kh-herzjesu.at , regional differences with regard to the waiting times. However, every patient will be able to get it as soon as possible, based on the urgency of the treatment and the existing capacities.