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title: "Waiting times by state and territory"
description: "Public hospital planned-surgery waiting times for every Australian state and territory, with state medians, hospital rankings and cross-border comparisons for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/state/"
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# Waiting times by state and territory

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

Each state page compares every surgery type's state median with the national one, ranks the state's hospitals on urgency-category performance, and — where the state has a border worth crossing — shows where the shorter published wait is on the other side.

- ## [New South Wales](https://surgerywaits.au/state/nsw/)

  98 public hospitals, 107 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [Victoria](https://surgerywaits.au/state/vic/)

  48 public hospitals, 107 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [Queensland](https://surgerywaits.au/state/qld/)

  54 public hospitals, 89 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [Western Australia](https://surgerywaits.au/state/wa/)

  40 public hospitals, 72 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [South Australia](https://surgerywaits.au/state/sa/)

  40 public hospitals, 55 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [Tasmania](https://surgerywaits.au/state/tas/)

  4 public hospitals, 24 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [Australian Capital Territory](https://surgerywaits.au/state/act/)

  3 public hospitals, 5 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.
- ## [Northern Territory](https://surgerywaits.au/state/nt/)

  6 public hospitals, 13 surgery types with a published state median in 2024–25.

Waiting lists do not stop at state lines: a referral can name a public hospital in another state. [See where crossing the border cuts the wait most.](https://surgerywaits.au/longest-waits/border/)

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

Surgery Waits is published by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/).

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