Scar revision waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Scar revision, 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 Scar revision in public hospitals was 83 days in 2024–25, from 1239 surgeries. 9.5% of people waited more than 365 days. 29 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 days marks the national median.

Victoria50 days
Queensland62 days
New South Wales131 days
Western Australia155 days
Australian Capital Territorynot published
Northern Territorynot published
South Australianot published

Scar revision 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	50 days	9.1%	364 surgeries
2	Queensland	62 days	5.3%	340 surgeries
3	New South Wales	131 days	7.6%	288 surgeries
4	Western Australia	155 days	20.1%	164 surgeries
unranked	Australian Capital Territory	not published	not published	5 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	not published
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	74 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
QLD
NSW

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	QLD (days)	NSW (days)
2016–17	65	58	65	69
2017–18	67	74	69	63
2018–19	73	80	64	80
2019–20	83	108	83	90
2020–21	84	177	75	91
2021–22	121	not published	101	159
2022–23	133	178	150	88
2023–24	103	83	106	104
2024–25	83	50	62	131

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.