Surgery Waits

Public hospital surgery waiting times in Tasmania

In 2024–25, Tasmania's median waits ranged from 22 days for breast lump removal to 271 days for septoplasty, across 4 public hospitals.

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

Tasmania public hospitals report their planned-surgery waiting times to the national collection once a year. This page brings the state's figures together: every surgery type with a published state median, every hospital, and the urgency-category performance — each linking to the detailed comparison.

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

Waiting times by surgery in Tasmania

Median waiting time by surgery type in Tasmania public hospitals, 2024–25, shortest first. Surgeries with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Surgery State median National median Waited more than 365 days Hospitals reporting
1 Breast lump removal 22 days 17 days 0.0% 3
2 Mastectomy 23 days 19 days 2.5% 3
3 Amputation of limb 30 days 14 days 3.6% 3
4 Cystoscopy 34 days 26 days 1.4% 3
4 Stone/s urinary tract - removal of 34 days 25 days 0.8% 2
6 Dilatation and curettage 36 days 28 days 0.5% 4
7 Laminectomy 40 days 66 days 0.0% 1
8 Thyroidectomy/hemi-thyroidectomy 42 days 56 days 1.8% 3
9 Gallbladder removal 46 days 48 days 4.2% 4
10 Prostate biopsy 50 days 33 days 0.2% 4
11 Microlaryngoscopy 57 days 26 days 5.3% 2
12 Carpal tunnel surgery 63 days 71 days 4.2% 4
13 Arthroscopy 70 days 78 days 3.0% 4
14 Inguinal hernia repair 72 days 73 days 10.0% 4
15 Hysterectomy 77 days 74 days 6.7% 4
16 Grommets 81 days 90 days 5.0% 3
16 Myringotomy 81 days 80 days 5.0% 3
18 Laparoscopy 86 days 69 days 3.5% 4
19 Cataract surgery 99 days 106 days 4.9% 3
20 Hip replacement 126 days 130 days 5.4% 3
21 Tonsillectomy 156 days 182 days 17.3% 3
22 Knee replacement 161 days 255 days 6.8% 3
23 Adenoidectomy 191 days 144 days 18.8% 3
24 Septoplasty 271 days 320 days 36.1% 3

Treated on time, by urgency category

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. What each category means, with every hospital compared nationally, is on the urgency categories pages.

Share of patients treated within the clinically recommended time at Tasmania public hospitals, by urgency category, 2024–25. Ranked on Category 1 (urgent); hospitals with the same figure share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
RankHospitalCategory 1 (urgent)Category 2 (semi-urgent)Category 3 (non-urgent)
1 Launceston General Hospital67%55%83%
2 Royal Hobart Hospital66%54%88%
3 Mersey Community Hospital63%60%87%
4 North West Regional Hospital57%35%79%
Cite this page

In 2024–25, Tasmania's published median waits for planned surgery ranged from 22 days for breast lump removal to 271 days for septoplasty, across 4 public hospitals.

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Surgery Waits, "Public hospital waiting lists in Tasmania, 2024–25", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/state/tas/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/state/tas/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

Every public hospital in Tasmania

Sorted by how many surgery types each reported for 2024–25. A hospital's own page lists every surgery it reports, its urgency-category figures and its history.

What is not here

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

State medians cover everyone who had that surgery in the state, in all urgency categories together — how these figures are put together.