A small selection of average Hospital waiting times taken from the new My Hospitals website.
Average Days Waiting Time
| Hospital | All General Surgery | Cholecystectomy | Haemorrhoidectomy | Inguinal Herniorrhaphy |
| National Average | 31 | 51 | 66 | 57 |
| QLD | ||||
| Redland Hospital | 33 | 42 | 61 | 55 |
| Princess Alexandra Hospital | 20 | 25 | 37 | 52 |
| Royal Brisbane | 23 | 66 | 51 | 56 |
| WA | ||||
| Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street | 30 | 94 | 154 | 139 |
| VIC | ||||
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | 21 | 66 | 136 | 74 |
| NSW | ||||
| Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney | 33 | 41 | 97 | 92 |
I have included more Hospitals from my own area, as I was more interested in these results for myself, but decided to add some comparisons for other Cities to place on this page.
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Are these private or public hospitals? I’m having trouble finding waiting times for private hospitals. I know they are shorter but I can’t find the stats?
The site does show some details for both Private and Public, but it appears that only Public have the waiting times shown.
The website provides comparisons to national public hospital performance statistics on waiting times for elective surgery and emergency department care, where data are available.
Private hospitals can change their waiting times depending on the size of the patients bank balance…