Toenail surgery waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital
Half of patients at Blue Mountains Hospital waited 27 days or less for toenail surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). 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
- 27 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 43 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 36 days in 2018–19 to 27 days in 2024–25 — down 25% — while the national median rose from 36 days to 48 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Toenail surgery" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountains Hospital | 27 days | not published | 12 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 55 days | 3.6% | 417 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 48 days | 1.9% | 1323 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 48 days marks the national median.
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 47 km away: 34 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 48 km away: 320 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 69 km away: 69 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 76 km away: 80 days
Bowral Hospital, NSW · about 87 km away: 42 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 95 km away: 40 days
Cessnock Hospital, NSW · about 137 km away: 193 days
Lachlan Health Service - Parkes, NSW · about 209 km away: 56 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 published | 46 | 33 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 47 | 34 |
| 2018–19 | 36 | 44 | 36 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 49 | 45 |
| 2020–21 | 26 | 56 | 49 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 68 | 58 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 62 | 60 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 64 | 48 |
| 2024–25 | 27 | 55 | 48 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Blue Mountains Hospital · Toenail surgery across Australia · Toenail surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales