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title: Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia, version 2026-10-20
resource: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/
rows: 27902
source_sha256: ec085bef704b5669bb936c65004c3dee5defee559bf7b0fa0dc1763fd705d10c
---

# Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia, version 2026-10-20

27902 rows, 11 fields, fetched 19 October 2026. This version keeps its content. Its files change only for the reasons the terms give (https://publicdata.au/terms/), and each change is recorded in its notes.

## About this version

The publisher's server states no change date, so this version is dated by the fetch.

- data.csv: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.csv (3.3 MB)
- data.csv-metadata.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.csv-metadata.json (3.6 KB)
- data.csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.csv.gz (301 KB)
- data.duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.duckdb
- data.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.json (9.4 MB)
- data.ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.ndjson (9.4 MB)
- data.parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.parquet (149 KB)
- data.sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.sqlite (5.2 MB)
- data.xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/data.xlsx (1.2 MB)
- manifest.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/manifest.json (1.7 KB)
- schema.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/schema.json (1.7 KB)
- schema.sql: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/schema.sql (1.4 KB)
- source.xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/source.xlsx (18 MB)

SHA-256 of every file, under the names they download as: https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/SHA256SUMS

## 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.