Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital
The median wait for salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy at this public hospital in the Leura area of New South Wales was 346 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
- 346 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 100 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 100 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 86 days in 2016–17 to 346 days in 2024–25 — up 302% — while the national median rose from 41 days to 56 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 37 km away, at 114 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountains Hospital | 346 days | not published | 26 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 71 days | 5.3% | 1262 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 56 days | 2.4% | 4989 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
- Blue Mountains Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blue Mountains Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 86 | 49 | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 74 | 51 | 43 |
| 2018–19 | 54 | 53 | 48 |
| 2019–20 | 37 | 59 | 50 |
| 2020–21 | 66 | 71 | 64 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 69 | 63 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 82 | 69 |
| 2023–24 | 79 | 63 | 57 |
| 2024–25 | 346 | 71 | 56 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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