About our Elective Surgery Centre (ESC)

• Opened in 2013
• Is situated in the North Shore Hospital campus, Shakespeare Road, Takapuna
• Dedicated solely to providing uninterrupted elective surgical procedures (non-emergency) for the growing population of the Waitemata District
• Has four operating theatres, 40 inpatient beds, 12-bedded recovery room
• Stand-alone sterilising department
• Separate outpatient department
  
  

The aims of the ESC:

• to create the most productive and cost-effective surgical public hospital in the country
• allow a greater flow of patients from admission to discharge
• maintain a very high level of patient care and comfort
• increase the number of elective procedures  (5,500 procedures per year by 2016/17)
• reduce the overall cost of workload
• re-invest savings into other areas
• separate elective services from emergency/acute care
• creates efficiency and productivity by having an uninterrupted service all year round
• group patients together who are having the same type of surgical procedure
• have dedicated teams of clinicians working together collaboratively to support shorter patient journeys in hospital