Deviated septum surgery waiting time at Kurri Kurri Hospital
Half of patients at Kurri Kurri Hospital waited 242 days or less for deviated septum surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty". This public hospital is in the Weston 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
- 242 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 21 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 339 days in 2011–12 to 242 days in 2024–25 — down 29% — while the national median rose from 160 days to 320 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurri Kurri Hospital | 242 days | not published | 21 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 340 days | 26.6% | 1713 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 320 days | 30.8% | 5687 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 days marks the national median.
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 413 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 28 km away: 367 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 67 km away: 372 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 103 km away: 319 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 106 km away: 362 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 113 km away: 306 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 114 km away: 340 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 117 km away: 318 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Kurri Kurri Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Kurri Kurri Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 339 | 320 | 160 |
| 2012–13 | 315 | 327 | 197 |
| 2013–14 | 118 | 324 | 221 |
| 2014–15 | 259 | 322 | 214 |
| 2015–16 | 320 | 317 | 209 |
| 2016–17 | 317 | 322 | 209 |
| 2017–18 | 121 | 328 | 248 |
| 2018–19 | 305 | 328 | 241 |
| 2019–20 | 206 | 332 | 277 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 351 | 330 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 363 | 315 |
| 2022–23 | 246 | 398 | 365 |
| 2023–24 | 289 | 349 | 332 |
| 2024–25 | 242 | 340 | 320 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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