Surgery Waits

Cystectomy waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

The median wait for cystectomy at this public hospital in the Hobart area of Tasmania was 41 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
41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
39 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 18 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 102 days in 2021–22 to 41 days in 2024–25 — down 60% — while the national median rose from 28 days to 29 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 600 km away, at 35 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cystectomy" 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 Cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Hobart Hospital41 daysnot published39 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)not publishednot published46 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)25 days3.8%133 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)29 days1.5%517 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 29 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cystectomy by financial year at Royal Hobart Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Hobart Hospital 41Australia 29
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Hobart Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published27
2017–18not publishednot published29
2018–19not publishednot published29
2019–20not publishednot published27
2020–21not publishednot published29
2021–22102not published28
2022–23not publishednot published32
2023–2419not published30
2024–2541not published29

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

All surgery at Royal Hobart Hospital · Cystectomy across Australia · Cystectomy in Tasmania