Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Blacktown Hospital
Half of patients at Blacktown Hospital waited 349 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 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
- 349 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 52 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 1.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
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 60 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 61 days in 2011–12 to 349 days in 2024–25 — up 472% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mount Druitt Hospital, about 8 km away, at 346 days. Here, 1.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktown Hospital | 349 days | 1.9% | 52 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.
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 346 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 320 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 306 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 261 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 319 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 240 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 74 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 28 km away: 118 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 61 | 100 | 103 |
| 2012–13 | 83 | 97 | 96 |
| 2013–14 | 87 | 122 | 97 |
| 2014–15 | 88 | 142 | 105 |
| 2015–16 | 103 | 135 | 104 |
| 2016–17 | 220 | 121 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | 90 | 127 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | 111 | 163 | 108 |
| 2019–20 | 92 | 169 | 129 |
| 2020–21 | 123 | 262 | 223 |
| 2021–22 | 112 | 267 | 208 |
| 2022–23 | 413 | 290 | 216 |
| 2023–24 | 300 | 241 | 189 |
| 2024–25 | 349 | 255 | 133 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Blacktown Hospital · Varicose vein surgery across Australia · Varicose vein surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales