Nerve decompression waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for nerve decompression at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 94 days in 2024–25.

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: 94 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 17 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 181 days in 2016–17 to 94 days in 2024–25 — down 48% — while the national median rose from 83 days to 96 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 14 km away, at 60 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Nerve decompression, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Liverpool Hospital	94 days	not published	44 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	115 days	13.2%	552 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	96 days	10.9%	695 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 96 days marks the national median.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 14 km away60 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away262 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 19 km away260 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 24 km away21 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 26 km away64 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 27 km away301 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 27 km away60 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 28 km away91 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Nerve decompression, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Liverpool Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	181	92	83
2017–18	175	99	90
2018–19	210	87	77
2019–20	173	81	80
2020–21	344	126	114
2021–22	118	106	92
2022–23	448	137	121
2023–24	330	112	103
2024–25	94	115	96

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

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