CANBERRA hospitals are performing overwhelmingly the worst in the country, according to the release of two reports. An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report and the quarterly ACT Health report confirm that patients in the ACT are waiting longer than all states and territories for hospital treatment. The numbers are quite concerting in regards to wait times at the emergency department despite remaining steady in some categories but still comparably behind at Canberra Hospital and Cavalry Public Hospital Bruce. But the ACT government has blamed a lack of Commonwealth funding for affecting the drain on resources. “There are a range of issues and we would always like to see more funding from the Commonwealth and under a previous Labor government we would have seen the Commonwealth contribution increase to 50 per cent instead of 45 per cent,” Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith said.