Excess eyelid skin removal waiting time at Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Half of patients at Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital waited 156 days or less for excess eyelid skin removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Blepharoplasty". This public hospital is in the Gloucester 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
- 156 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 221 days in 2020–21 to 156 days in 2024–25 — down 29% — while the national median rose from 245 days to 246 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Blepharoplasty" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital | 156 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 335 days | 27.0% | 174 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 246 days | 23.0% | 666 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.
Kurri Kurri Hospital, NSW · about 101 km away: 355 days
Kempsey District Hospital, NSW · about 133 km away: 200 days
Tamworth Hospital, NSW · about 143 km away: 342 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 217 km away: 378 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 219 km away: 294 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 263 | 85 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 222 | 111 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 211 | 126 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 262 | 128 |
| 2020–21 | 221 | 278 | 245 |
| 2021–22 | 68 | 250 | 149 |
| 2022–23 | 56 | 308 | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 134 | 307 | 262 |
| 2024–25 | 156 | 335 | 246 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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