The Report on Government Services, released today, revealed that 9.6 per cent of Tasmanian patients waited more than a year for elective surgery in 2010-11.

Only the Australian Capital Territory scored worse with 10.8 per cent of patients waiting more than a year.

The Australian average was 2.9 per cent.

The report also showed 72 per cent of Tasmania's emergency patients were seen on time - below every state but Western Australia, which recorded 71 per cent.

Of the urgent patients, 55 per cent were seen on time - ahead of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory but below the national average of 68 per cent.

Of semi-urgent patients, 63 per cent were seen on time, while 83 per cent of non-urgent patients were seen on time.

The report showed that in 2010 Tasmania still had the second-highest mortality rate with a rate of 6.7 deaths a 1000 people and the second highest perinatal death rate in 2009 with 10.6 deaths a 1000 total births.

Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne said the report showed Tasmania was doing well in the face of increasing demand, with the number of full-time nurses and medical practitioners a 100,000 people and the number of hospital beds a 1000 people well above the national average in 2009.

She said it also showed that recurrent public hospital expenditure a person was above the national average in 2009-10.

``This follows an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report released in November, which showed Tasmania performed more elective surgery per capita than any other jurisdiction in Australia in 2010-11,'' she said.