Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Tweed Heads area of New South Wales was 84 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
84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
66 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 88 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 64 days in 2016–17 to 84 days in 2024–25 — up 31% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gold Coast University Hospital, about 29 km away, at 25 days. Here, 0.0% 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
Tweed Valley Hospital84 days0.0%66 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)70 days6.0%2149 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)84 days7.1%2015 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Tweed Valley Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tweed Valley Hospital 84NSW 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 periodTweed Valley Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17645047
2017–18435451
2018–19495857
2019–20596664
2020–21597979
2021–22716978
2022–23987482
2023–24835969
2024–25847069

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

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