Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
Half of patients at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital waited 74 days or less for varicose vein surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Varicose veins treatment". This public hospital is in the Condell Park area of New South Wales.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 41 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 307 days in 2011–12 to 74 days in 2024–25 — down 76% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Varicose veins treatment" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital | 74 days | not published | 41 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 255 days | 9.4% | 1099 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 133 days | 9.5% | 3346 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 306 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 11 km away: 86 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 261 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 320 days
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 244 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 118 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 349 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 346 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 307 | 100 | 103 |
| 2012–13 | 294 | 97 | 96 |
| 2013–14 | 193 | 122 | 97 |
| 2014–15 | 239 | 142 | 105 |
| 2015–16 | 213 | 135 | 104 |
| 2016–17 | 204 | 121 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | 281 | 127 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | 273 | 163 | 108 |
| 2019–20 | 71 | 169 | 129 |
| 2020–21 | 237 | 262 | 223 |
| 2021–22 | 376 | 267 | 208 |
| 2022–23 | 139 | 290 | 216 |
| 2023–24 | 73 | 241 | 189 |
| 2024–25 | 74 | 255 | 133 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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