Surgery Waits

Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy waiting time at Calvary Mater Newcastle

The median wait for lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy at this public hospital in the Waratah area of New South Wales was 31 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
34 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 28 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 27 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 4 km away, at 26 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Calvary Mater Newcastle31 daysnot published34 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)20 days0.0%604 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)17 days0.0%1875 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy by financial year at Calvary Mater Newcastle, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Calvary Mater Newcastle 31NSW 20Australia 17
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodCalvary Mater Newcastle (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published2313
2017–18not reported for this period2313
2018–19not published2515
2019–20not published2114
2020–21not published1913
2021–22not published1714
2022–23not reported for this period2115
2023–24not published1916
2024–25312017

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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