The average wait to be able to undergo an intervention of Juanete was at the end of 2024 of 153 days, six more than a year earlier. For an intervention of benign prostate hypertrophy, 126 days, 8 less than at the end of 2023. This is shown by the latest report of the waiting lists of the national Health system, published Wednesday by the Ministry of Health, which places the average wait for an operation in 126 days, with a slight decrease in front of 12 months before, when patients awaited 128 days.
The number of people who await an intervention is also reduced to the late 2023. Thus, the waiting lists for surgery in December last year thickened them 846,583 people, 2,952 less than a year earlier. Delays in traumatology, neurosurgery or general and digestive surgery decrease, but increase in other specialties such as plastic surgery, vascular surgery or thoracic surgery.
It is precisely traumatology that accumulates the most patients in their waiting list, with 204,140 people pending an intervention, followed by ophthalmology (169,447) and general and digestive surgery (151,713). As for waiting times, the plastic surgery list, with 258 days, neurosurgery with 191 days and angiology and vascular surgery, with 160 days. The least delays present are cardiac surgery, with 67 days, dermatology, with 72 days, and ophthalmology, with 83.
-On concrete operations, the one that accumulates the most is that of Juanete, with 153 days of waiting. Others such as knee prostheses accumulate 120 days of waiting or 69 in the case of cataracts.
By autonomous communities, Madrid is the region in which the least average time is expected to be intervened, with 48 days. Behind, but among the best times, are Basque Country (59) and Galicia (67). The greatest delays occur in Extremadura, with 178 days, Andalusia (176) or Cantabria (151).
Four million
On the other hand, about 4 million people awaited at the end of last year for a first consultation with a hospital specialist, with an average waiting time of 105 days. In addition, 62.3 % of patients had an appointment for more than 60 days after their inclusion in the list. The specialties with the greatest waiting times were dermatology, with 131 days, neurology, with 129, and traumatology with 119.
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