Removal of intracranial lesion waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Removal of intracranial lesion, 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 Removal of intracranial lesion in public hospitals was 16 days in 2024–25, from 551 surgeries. 0.2% of people waited more than 365 days. 8 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 16 days marks the national median.

Queensland15 days
Victoria23 days
Australian Capital Territorynot published
New South Walesnot published
Northern Territorynot published
Western Australianot published

Removal of intracranial lesion 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	Queensland	15 days	0.3%	378 surgeries
2	Victoria	23 days	0.0%	127 surgeries
unranked	Australian Capital Territory	not published	not published	5 surgeries
unranked	New South Wales	not published	not published	6 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Western Australia	not published	not published	31 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
QLD
VIC

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Median wait in days for Removal of intracranial lesion, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	QLD (days)	VIC (days)
2016–17	13	10	not published
2017–18	12	10	not published
2018–19	13	11	not published
2019–20	13	11	not published
2020–21	15	13	not published
2021–22	15	13	not published
2022–23	14	13	not published
2023–24	17	16	22
2024–25	16	15	23

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.