Amputation of limb waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Amputation of limb, nationally and by state.

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

Across Australia, the median wait for Amputation of limb in public hospitals was 14 days in 2024–25, from 761 surgeries. 1.2% of people waited more than 365 days. 22 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

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

Victoria10 days
Tasmania30 days
New South Walesnot published
Northern Territorynot published
Queenslandnot published
South Australianot published
Western Australianot published

Amputation of limb in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	10 days	1.2%	338 surgeries
2	Tasmania	30 days	3.6%	110 surgeries
unranked	New South Wales	not published	not published	94 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Queensland	not published	not published	92 surgeries
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	86 surgeries
unranked	Western Australia	not published	not published	38 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
TAS

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	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	TAS (days)
2016–17	11	14	not published
2017–18	13	13	not published
2018–19	12	13	not published
2019–20	11	11	not published
2020–21	13	12	not published
2021–22	14	11	not published
2022–23	14	12	not published
2023–24	14	12	not published
2024–25	14	10	30

What is not here

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

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.