Surgery Waits

Hunter New England surgery waiting times

The public hospitals reporting planned-surgery waiting times under Hunter New England in New South Wales.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

18 public hospitals report planned-surgery waiting times under Hunter New England. Each hospital's page carries every surgery it reports, ranked against the nearest alternatives — including hospitals outside this network, because a waiting list does not care who runs the hospital.

The source groups public hospitals into Local Hospital Networks — called local health districts in New South Wales, hospital and health services in Queensland, health services in Victoria and Western Australia, and networks elsewhere. The grouping is the source's own mapping, not this site's. The source publishes this network as "Hunter New England".

Hospitals of Hunter New England

Public hospitals reporting planned surgery under Hunter New England, 2024–25, by how many surgery types each reported. The urgent on-time share is the share of Category 1 patients treated within 30 days. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Hospital Area Surgery types reported Category 1 treated on time
John Hunter Hospital Rankin Park, NSW 108 100%
Tamworth Hospital North Tamworth, NSW 86 99%
Belmont Hospital Valentine, NSW 81 99%
Maitland Hospital Telarah, NSW 69 99%
Manning Hospital Taree South, NSW 58 99%
Armidale Hospital Armidale, NSW 48 99%
Cessnock Hospital Cessnock, NSW 35 99%
Calvary Mater Newcastle Waratah, NSW 30 100%
Singleton Hospital Redbournberry, NSW 26 100%
Moree Hospital Moree, NSW 22 100%
Kurri Kurri Hospital Weston, NSW 21 100%
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Gloucester, NSW 20 100%
Muswellbrook Hospital Muswellbrook, NSW 16 99%
Narrabri Hospital Narrabri, NSW 9 not published
Gunnedah Hospital Gunnedah, NSW 7 not published
Inverell Hospital Inverell, NSW 7 not published
Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone Scone, NSW 7 100%
Glen Innes Hospital Glen Innes, NSW 2 not published

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. What the urgency categories mean.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Compare every New South Wales hospital, or every network on the health services index.