Surgery Waits

Voice box scope surgery waiting time at Coffs Harbour Hospital

Half of patients at Coffs Harbour Hospital waited 21 days or less for voice box scope surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Microlaryngoscopy". This public hospital is in the North Boambee Valley area of New South Wales.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

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

Median wait
21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
31 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 44 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2018–19 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tamworth Hospital, about 224 km away, at 20 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Microlaryngoscopy" 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 Microlaryngoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Coffs Harbour Hospital21 daysnot published31 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)26 days3.1%976 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)28 days0.0%154 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days3.3%1915 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for microlaryngoscopy by financial year at Coffs Harbour Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Coffs Harbour Hospital 21NSW 26Australia 26
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Microlaryngoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodCoffs Harbour Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot reported for this period24
2017–18not reported for this periodnot reported for this period23
2018–19252725
2019–20382822
2020–21452423
2021–22242121
2022–23402322
2023–24292726
2024–25212626

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

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