Surgery Waits

Microlaryngoscopy waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

The median wait for microlaryngoscopy at this public hospital in the North Tamworth area of New South Wales was 20 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
20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 27 days in 2023–24 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median stayed at 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 299 km away, at 15 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
Tamworth Hospital20 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)26 days3.1%976 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for microlaryngoscopy by financial year at Tamworth Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tamworth Hospital 20NSW 26Australia 26
  • Tamworth Hospital
  • NSW
  • Australia
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Microlaryngoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodTamworth 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
2018–19not reported for this period2725
2019–20not reported for this period2822
2020–21not reported for this period2423
2021–22not reported for this period2121
2022–23not published2322
2023–24272726
2024–25202626

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

All surgery at Tamworth Hospital · Microlaryngoscopy across Australia · Microlaryngoscopy in New South Wales