Guides
Each guide answers one question that patients bring to a waiting time. The guides describe the figures and rules of this site and give no medical advice.
The guides
- How to check your place on a surgery waiting listSurgery Waits cannot show a place on a list. This guide says what the figures show and lists questions for a hospital.
- Referral to a different hospitalThe site lists nearby public hospitals, including hospitals across a state border. This guide says what the lists hold and what the figures leave out.
- Public and private waiting timesThe figures cover public hospitals only. This guide says what that means for a comparison.
- If your planned surgery is cancelled or postponedThe site holds no figure for cancelled surgery. This guide says what a published wait counts and lists questions for a hospital.
- Emergency department waiting timesThe site publishes no emergency department figures. This guide says what its waiting times measure instead.
Before you use these figures
Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened. It does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner and your treating specialist can help you decide what is right for you.
In an emergency, call 000.