Radical neck dissection waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Radical neck dissection, 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 Radical neck dissection in public hospitals was 15 days in 2024–25, from 535 surgeries. 0.9% of people waited more than 365 days. 17 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 15 days marks the national median.

Victoria13 days
New South Wales18 days
South Australianot published
Tasmanianot published
Western Australianot published

Radical neck dissection 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	13 days	0.0%	199 surgeries
2	New South Wales	18 days	1.8%	224 surgeries
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	70 surgeries
unranked	Tasmania	not published	not published	28 surgeries
unranked	Western Australia	not published	not published	14 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
NSW

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Median wait in days for Radical neck dissection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	NSW (days)
2016–17	13	13	15
2017–18	14	14	16
2018–19	15	14	20
2019–20	12	12	14
2020–21	13	13	15
2021–22	13	13	15
2022–23	14	13	15
2023–24	13	12	16
2024–25	15	13	18

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.