Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Fairfield Hospital
Half of patients at Fairfield Hospital waited 320 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 Prairiewood 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
- 320 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 36 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 54 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 277 days in 2011–12 to 320 days in 2024–25 — up 16% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 12 km away, at 306 days.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield Hospital | 320 days | not published | 36 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.
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 349 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 306 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 346 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 74 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 261 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 21 km away: 319 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 24 km away: 86 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 26 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
- Fairfield Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Fairfield Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 277 | 100 | 103 |
| 2012–13 | 214 | 97 | 96 |
| 2013–14 | 257 | 122 | 97 |
| 2014–15 | 217 | 142 | 105 |
| 2015–16 | 156 | 135 | 104 |
| 2016–17 | 264 | 121 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | 339 | 127 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | 171 | 163 | 108 |
| 2019–20 | 146 | 169 | 129 |
| 2020–21 | 295 | 262 | 223 |
| 2021–22 | 414 | 267 | 208 |
| 2022–23 | 458 | 290 | 216 |
| 2023–24 | 323 | 241 | 189 |
| 2024–25 | 320 | 255 | 133 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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