Parathyroid gland removal waiting time at Blacktown Hospital
Half of patients at Blacktown Hospital waited 279 days or less for parathyroid gland removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Parathyroidectomy". This public hospital is in the Blacktown 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
- 279 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 26 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 47 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 83 days in 2022–23 to 279 days in 2024–25 — up 236% — while the national median fell from 84 days to 82 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 7 km away, at 199 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktown Hospital | 279 days | not published | 26 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 98 days | 7.5% | 451 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 82 days | 4.0% | 1304 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 82 days marks the national median.
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 199 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 184 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 42 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 86 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 80 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 139 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 29 km away: 111 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 30 km away: 45 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Blacktown Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blacktown Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 56 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 63 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 57 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 63 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 69 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 70 | 73 |
| 2022–23 | 83 | 83 | 84 |
| 2023–24 | 83 | 84 | 87 |
| 2024–25 | 279 | 98 | 82 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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