Surgery Waits

Nose and throat scope waiting time at John Hunter Hospital

Half of patients at John Hunter Hospital waited 192 days or less for nose and throat scope in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Nasendoscopy". This public hospital is in the Rankin Park 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
192 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 81 days in 2016–17 to 192 days in 2024–25 — up 137% — while the national median rose from 0 days to 277 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sydney Children's Hospital, about 118 km away, at 13 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nasendoscopy" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nasendoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
John Hunter Hospital192 daysnot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)343 days25.5%314 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)277 days18.7%492 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 277 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for nasendoscopy by financial year at John Hunter Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25John Hunter Hospital 192NSW 343Australia 277
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Median wait in days for Nasendoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodJohn Hunter Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17811100
2017–188111170
2018–196710595
2019–205714780
2020–2113811250
2021–22not published11963
2022–23100153116
2023–2449306182
2024–25192343277

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at John Hunter Hospital · Nose and throat scope across Australia · Nose and throat scope in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales