Ureteric stent - insertion of waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Ureteric stent - insertion of, 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 Ureteric stent - insertion of in public hospitals was 24 days in 2024–25, from 2982 surgeries. 0.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 39 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 days marks the national median.

Queensland18 days
Victoria21 days
New South Wales28 days
South Australia42 days
Northern Territorynot published
Western Australianot published

Ureteric stent - insertion of 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	18 days	0.4%	814 surgeries
2	Victoria	21 days	0.0%	207 surgeries
3	New South Wales	28 days	0.5%	1611 surgeries
4	South Australia	42 days	2.7%	226 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	74 surgeries
unranked	Western Australia	not published	not published	50 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
QLD
VIC
NSW

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Ureteric stent - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	QLD (days)	VIC (days)	NSW (days)
2016–17	17	14	not published	15
2017–18	21	15	15	21
2018–19	22	14	20	27
2019–20	21	14	not published	24
2020–21	22	15	14	27
2021–22	21	14	20	22
2022–23	24	15	21	27
2023–24	26	20	16	28
2024–25	24	18	21	28

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.