Surgery Waits

Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital

The median wait for lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy at this public hospital in the Tweed Heads area of New South Wales was 28 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
28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 28 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2017–18 to 28 days in 2024–25 — up 33% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gold Coast University Hospital, about 29 km away, at 19 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy" 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 Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Tweed Valley Hospital28 daysnot published26 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)20 days0.0%604 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)15 days0.0%479 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)17 days0.0%1875 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 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 lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy by financial year at Tweed Valley Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tweed Valley Hospital 28NSW 20Australia 17
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodTweed Valley Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2313
2017–18212313
2018–19192515
2019–20152114
2020–21261913
2021–22231714
2022–23252115
2023–24261916
2024–25282017

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

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