ACT ED Wait Times -- Visualization Drafts

1. Facility rows with wait time, patient count, and open/closed status

EDs are always open. WICs show open/closed status with operating hours. Sparklines track patients waiting over 24h. Two badges: avg wait time (minutes) and patients waiting count.

Emergency Departments

Walk-in Centres

2. ACT-wide patients waiting -- ED vs Walk-in Centre

Stacked area showing total patients waiting split by facility type. WIC contribution drops to zero outside operating hours (07:30-22:00), making the overnight ED-only load visible.

3. Patient journey breakdown -- wait vs treatment

ACT uniquely provides both average wait time and treatment duration. Stacked bars show the total patient journey per facility. Only open facilities are shown.

4. Current patients waiting ranking

Horizontal bars sorted by patient count. ED/WIC type indicated by bar label suffix. Severity coloring per count thresholds.

5. Wait time + treatment duration over time (Canberra)

ACT's unique dual-metric: average wait time and average treatment duration as overlapping areas. The gap between them reveals whether delays are in the queue or in treatment throughput.

6. Wait time comparison across all facilities

Overlaid wait times for all ACT facilities. Focal facility (Canberra) in solid lime, others in lighter tones. WICs naturally drop to zero outside operating hours.

7. Patients waiting trend (Canberra)

Patient queue size over 24h for the focal facility. The 45-min high demand threshold (from ACT Health -- 5+ patients queuing triggers the “high demand” label) is shown as a reference for EDs.