Amputation of limb waiting time at Launceston General Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Amputation of limb at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 22 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Amputation of limb, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Launceston General Hospital	23 days	not published	35 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	30 days	3.6%	110 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	10 days	1.2%	338 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	14 days	1.2%	761 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 14 days marks the national median.

Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 160 km away32 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 363 km away13 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 405 km away9 days
Dandenong HospitalVIC · about 419 km away8 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 426 km away7 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 436 km away8 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 440 km away3 days
The AlfredVIC · about 441 km away11 days

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. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Amputation of limb, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Launceston General Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	13	not published	11
2017–18	20	not published	13
2018–19	28	not published	12
2019–20	8	not published	11
2020–21	14	not published	13
2021–22	19	not published	14
2022–23	27	not published	14
2023–24	29	not published	14
2024–25	23	30	14

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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