Category 1 (urgent) waiting times in Tasmania

Of the 4 public hospitals that published a figure for 2024–25, the share treated on time ranged from 67% at Launceston General Hospital down to 57% at North West Regional Hospital.

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

Category 1 (urgent) means surgery is recommended within 30 days of being placed on the waiting list. Surgery that is clinically urgent: the condition can deteriorate quickly enough to become an emergency. The table ranks Tasmania's public hospitals by the share of urgent patients treated within that time in 2024–25.

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures.

Category 1 (urgent) planned surgery at Tasmania public hospitals, 2024–25, ranked by the share treated within the recommended time — highest first. Hospitals with the same figure share a rank; a hospital with no published figure is listed unranked. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Treated on time	Median wait	Surgeries
1	Launceston General Hospital	67%	22 days	4209 surgeries
2	Royal Hobart Hospital	66%	18 days	4475 surgeries
3	Mersey Community Hospital	63%	24 days	536 surgeries
4	North West Regional Hospital	57%	28 days	638 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Compare with every state's hospitals, see Tasmania's waiting times by surgery, or start from what the urgency categories mean.