What is waiting time?
What influences my waiting time?
Your waiting time may also be affected by:
- changing health needs of the community
- the time of year. Fewer operations are performed in hospitals over public holidays and during school holidays because many people prefer not to be hospitalised at these times of year. However, emergency treatment continues all year round
- same day surgery. Waiting times for treatments that do not require you to stay overnight in hospital are sometimes shorter
- the number of referrals the specialist doctor receives from GPs
- the amount of operating time the specialist doctor has allocated to him/her by the hospital. Note that many doctors perform significant amounts of work in private hospitals