Pterygium (eye growth) removal waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital
Half of patients at Blue Mountains Hospital waited 290 days or less for pterygium (eye growth) removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pterygium - excision of". This public hospital is in the Leura 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
- 290 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 12 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 251 days in 2023–24 to 290 days in 2024–25 — up 16% — while the national median rose from 191 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 82 km away, at 44 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountains Hospital | 290 days | not published | 12 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 346 days | 32.1% | 735 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 61 km away: 443 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 63 km away: 396 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 69 km away: 323 days
Bathurst Base Hospital, NSW · about 77 km away: 318 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 81 km away: 373 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 82 km away: 44 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 84 km away: 365 days
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 106 km away: 360 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Blue Mountains Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blue Mountains Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 260 | 128 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 277 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 275 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 315 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 331 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | 306 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 329 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 251 | 317 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 290 | 346 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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