Keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital
Half of patients at Hawkesbury Hospital waited 109 days or less for keyhole belly surgery (laparoscopy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Laparoscopy". This public hospital is in the Windsor 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
- 109 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 40 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 113 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 72 days in 2016–17 to 109 days in 2024–25 — up 51% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Blacktown Hospital, about 20 km away, at 84 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawkesbury Hospital | 109 days | not published | 40 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 70 days | 6.0% | 2149 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 69 days | 5.4% | 9403 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 291 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 84 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 26 km away: 62 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 25 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 29 km away: 132 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 29 km away: 55 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 32 km away: 58 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 34 km away: 87 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Hawkesbury Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Hawkesbury Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 72 | 50 | 47 |
| 2017–18 | 74 | 54 | 51 |
| 2018–19 | 26 | 58 | 57 |
| 2019–20 | 30 | 66 | 64 |
| 2020–21 | 73 | 79 | 79 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 69 | 78 |
| 2022–23 | 102 | 74 | 82 |
| 2023–24 | 132 | 59 | 69 |
| 2024–25 | 109 | 70 | 69 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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