Figures from the latest Your Hospital report, which detail the health care group's performance from January to June 2008, show an increase in emergency department and general hospital patients.

It also shows the health care group is responding to emergency patients much more quickly than state-wide benchmark targets.

Mr Scott said he was pleased with the results.

"What it demonstrates is the busyness of our emergency department and the hospital in general," he said.

"Also it shows that our emergency department is performing well against benchmarks.

"Of the people coming into the emergency department, 94 per cent are treated within four hours which is 14 per cent above the benchmark. That shows that we are performing extremely well."

The Your Hospital report shows that in the six-month period tracked, Wimmera Health Care Group treated 100 per cent of category one emergency patients immediately and 87 per cent of category two patients within 10 minutes of arrival. It treated 93 per cent of category three emergency patients within 30 minutes of arrival.

Both category two and three treatment times are better than state benchmark targets and category two times are also five per cent higher than those recorded in Wimmera Health Care Group's previous six months.

Mr Scott said the different categories related to the hospital's triage process with most complex and critical patients seen first.

He said the figures were the result of hard working and dedicated staff.

"We have recently been allocated more staff but they wouldn't affect these numbers, it's just the staff are better assisting patients more readily and more efficiently. They are meeting the needs of the community which is fantastic."