Parathyroidectomy waiting time at Blacktown Hospital
The median wait for parathyroidectomy at this public hospital in the Blacktown area of New South Wales was 279 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
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
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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