Surgery Waits

Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy waiting time at The Canberra Hospital

The median wait for lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy at this public hospital in the Garran area of Australian Capital Territory was 30 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
30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 12 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 150% — while the national median rose from 13 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 230 km away, at 17 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy" 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 Lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Canberra Hospital30 daysnot published11 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)20 days0.0%604 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)15 days0.0%416 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 500 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

Median wait for lobectomy/wedge resection/pneumonectomy by financial year at The Canberra Hospital, compared with Australian Capital Territory and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Canberra Hospital 30Australia 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 periodThe Canberra Hospital (days)ACT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1712not published13
2017–186not published13
2018–1932not published15
2019–209not published14
2020–217not published13
2021–2211not published14
2022–2314not published15
2023–2417not published16
2024–2530not published17

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

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