Provided below are the median waiting times for the most performed inpatient and daycase elective procedures in certain specialties. Waiting times are calculated from the date of addition to the waiting list until the date of admission to hospital for treatment and are based on admissions in a 6-month period.
The median waiting times are provided to give a perspective of recent waiting times for elective procedures. Individual waiting times will potentially be different from the median waiting times presented below as each individual patient waiting times for elective admission will be influenced by a number of different variables.
Last updated: 30 Apr 2025
| Specialty | Procedure | Median Waiting Times |
|---|---|---|
| ENT | Drainage of middle ear | 18 weeks |
| ENT | Excision of salivary gland | 9 weeks |
| ENT | Excision of thyroid gland | 4 weeks |
| ENT | Excision of tonsil | 17 weeks |
| ENT | Operations on septum of nose | 40 weeks |
| General Surgery | Excision of gall bladder | 14 weeks |
| General Surgery | Other excision of lesion of skin | 8 weeks |
| General Surgery | Primary repair of incisional hernia | 15 weeks |
| General Surgery | Primary repair of inguinal hernia | 15 weeks |
| General Surgery | Primary repair of umbilical hernia | 13 weeks |
| Gynaecology | Abdominal excision of uterus | 19 weeks |
| Gynaecology | Diagnostic endoscopic examination of uterus | 4 weeks |
| Gynaecology | Other operations on vulva | 2 weeks |
| Gynaecology | Other repair of prolapse of vagina | 62 weeks |
| Gynaecology | Vaginal excision of uterus | 9 weeks |
| Ophthalmology | Combined operations on muscles of eye | 23 weeks |
| Ophthalmology | Correction of deformity of eyelid | 10 weeks |
| Ophthalmology | Operations on vitreous body | 6 weeks |
| Ophthalmology | Prosthesis of lens | 5 weeks |
| Ophthalmology | Reconstruction of eyelid | 9 weeks |
| Oral Surgery | Excision of dental lesion of jaw | 7 weeks |
| Oral Surgery | Orthodontic operations | 40 weeks |
| Oral Surgery | Other operations on tooth | 2 weeks |
| Oral Surgery | Simple extraction of tooth | 2 weeks |
| Oral Surgery | Surgical removal of tooth | 21 weeks |
| Trauma & Orthopaedics | Operations on spinal nerve root | 7 weeks |
| Trauma & Orthopaedics | Release of entrapment of peripheral nerve at wrist | 8 weeks |
| Trauma & Orthopaedics | Therapeutic endoscopic operations on semilunar cartilage | 9 weeks |
| Trauma & Orthopaedics | Total prosthetic replacement of hip joint not using cement | 33 weeks |
| Trauma & Orthopaedics | Total prosthetic replacement of knee joint using cement | 17 weeks |
| Urology | Diagnostic endoscopic examination of bladder | 7 weeks |
| Urology | Endoscopic extirpation of lesion of bladder | 3 weeks |
| Urology | Endoscopic resection of outlet of male bladder | 22 weeks |
| Urology | Operations on prepuce | 5 weeks |
| Urology | Other operations on outlet of male bladder | 1 weeks |
