Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia

Median waiting times for elective surgery and the share who waited more than a year, for each public hospital and network by surgical specialty each year since 2011-12, from AIHW MyHospitals.

This is the 2026-10-20 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, with 27,902 rows and 12 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/ in 8 formats, with every earlier version and a query API. Each Zenodo version of this record is one publicdata.au version.

The data is published by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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