Pterygium (eye growth) removal waiting time at Kempsey District Hospital
Half of patients at Kempsey District Hospital waited 293 days or less for pterygium (eye growth) removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pterygium - excision of". This public hospital is in the West Kempsey 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
- 293 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 24 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 234 days in 2016–17 to 293 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kempsey District Hospital | 293 days | not published | 24 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 346 days | 32.1% | 735 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.
Macksville District Hospital, NSW · about 41 km away: 350 days
Grafton Base Hospital, NSW · about 155 km away: 360 days
Tamworth Hospital, NSW · about 181 km away: 329 days
Kurri Kurri Hospital, NSW · about 234 km away: 356 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Kempsey District Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Kempsey District Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 234 | 260 | 128 |
| 2017–18 | 138 | 277 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 152 | 275 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 243 | 315 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 329 | 331 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | 259 | 306 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 284 | 329 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 251 | 317 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 293 | 346 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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