Stone/s urinary tract - removal of waiting time at Launceston General Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of 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: 33 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 218 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 28 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 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 Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Launceston General Hospital	33 days	0.0%	218 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	34 days	0.8%	251 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.8%	1680 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	25 days	1.5%	3653 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 25 days marks the national median.

Royal Hobart HospitalTAS · about 160 km away50 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 404 km away13 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 405 km away20 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 408 km away20 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 431 km away20 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 442 km away17 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 445 km away29 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 447 km away17 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 Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Launceston General Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	34	34	28
2017–18	28	28	29
2018–19	46	45	26
2019–20	39	39	28
2020–21	45	47	29
2021–22	43	43	21
2022–23	60	57	23
2023–24	33	36	24
2024–25	33	34	25

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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