About our Elective Surgery Centre
Waitematā District Health Board’s (DHB) Elective Surgery Centre (ESC) opened in July 2013. The stand-alone facility is situated in the heart of the North Shore Hospital campus, off Shakespeare Road in Takapuna and is dedicated solely to providing uninterrupted elective surgical procedures (non-emergency) for the growing population of the Waitematā District.
The state of the art hospital has been designed around a specific model of patient care that addresses an increasing demand for elective surgical procedures to be performed within a growing and ageing population. The Waitematā district is the fastest growing of all New Zealand’s 20 DHBs.
The aim of the ESC has been to create the most productive and cost-effective surgical public hospital in the country. The building and its team has been designed to allow a greater flow of patients from admission to discharge, whilst maintaining a very high level of patient care and comfort. This has allowed the DHB to increase the number of elective procedures performed in total and reduce the overall cost of this workload, to allow the savings to be re-invested into other areas. The specific model of care within the ESC is at the forefront of global trends in healthcare. It simply separates elective services from emergency/acute care, which in turn creates efficiencies and productivity by having an uninterrupted service all year round. Other initiatives include grouping patients together who are having the same type of surgical procedure and by having dedicated teams of clinicians working together collaboratively to support shorter patient journeys in hospital.
The ESC, with its four operating theatres, forty inpatient beds, twelve bedded recovery room, stand-alone sterilising department and separate Outpatient Department, aims to increase its numbers of elective surgery, year on year, until it reaches capacity. It is expected that the unit will be able to undertake 5,500 procedures per year.
Previous Patient Feedback
To read what some of our previous patients have said about their experience at the ESC click here.