Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Maitland Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Telarah area of New South Wales was 171 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
171 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
62 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
4.8%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 137 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 74 days in 2016–17 to 171 days in 2024–25 — up 131% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 26 km away, at 25 days. Here, 4.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Maitland Hospital171 days4.8%62 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)70 days6.0%2149 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Maitland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Maitland Hospital 171NSW 70Australia 69
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMaitland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17745047
2017–18735451
2018–19865857
2019–201106664
2020–212337979
2021–221846978
2022–231287482
2023–241255969
2024–251717069

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Maitland Hospital · Laparoscopy across Australia · Laparoscopy in New South Wales