Surgery Waits

Nerve decompression waiting time at Maitland Hospital

The median wait for nerve decompression at this public hospital in the Telarah area of New South Wales was 411 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
411 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 17 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 185 days in 2016–17 to 411 days in 2024–25 — up 122% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 96 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 26 km away, at 240 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nerve decompression, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Maitland Hospital411 daysnot published17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)115 days13.2%552 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)96 days10.9%695 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 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 nerve decompression by financial year at Maitland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01252503755002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Maitland Hospital 411NSW 115Australia 96
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Nerve decompression, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMaitland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–171859283
2017–181699990
2018–192658777
2019–201468180
2020–21281126114
2021–22not published10692
2022–23276137121
2023–24not published112103
2024–2541111596

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

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