Laminectomy waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

The median wait for laminectomy at this public hospital in the Hobart area of Tasmania was 40 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 40 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 328 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 45 days in 2016–17 to 40 days in 2024–25 — down 11% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 66 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 594 km away, at 36 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laminectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laminectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Royal Hobart Hospital	40 days	0.0%	328 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	87 days	14.0%	609 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	40 days	0.0%	328 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	53 days	3.7%	459 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	66 days	7.4%	1772 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 66 days marks the national median.

Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 581 km away55 days
The AlfredVIC · about 594 km away36 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 600 km away70 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 601 km away40 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 602 km away61 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 602 km away70 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 863 km away354 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 989 km away80 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Laminectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	45	53	57
2017–18	57	57	68
2018–19	88	88	73
2019–20	46	46	69
2020–21	92	92	70
2021–22	115	115	70
2022–23	73	73	92
2023–24	40	40	68
2024–25	40	40	66

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

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