Parathyroidectomy waiting time at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Parathyroidectomy 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: 73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 47 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 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 Parathyroidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital	73 days	not published	21 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	77 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	75 days	1.4%	355 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	4.0%	1304 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 82 days marks the national median.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 16 km away79 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away117 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 558 km away125 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 654 km away117 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 657 km away75 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 660 km away71 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 662 km away64 days
The AlfredVIC · about 664 km away49 days

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. 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 Parathyroidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	not published	56
2017–18	64	not published	63
2018–19	72	not published	57
2019–20	83	80	63
2020–21	75	not published	69
2021–22	119	71	73
2022–23	104	103	84
2023–24	76	not published	87
2024–25	73	not published	82

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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