Keyhole sinus surgery waiting time at Nepean Hospital
Half of patients at Nepean Hospital waited 132 days or less for keyhole sinus surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery". This public hospital is in the Cambridge 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
- 132 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 56 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 8.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 328 days in 2016–17 to 132 days in 2024–25 — down 60% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 214 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 8.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 22.7%.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepean Hospital | 132 days | 8.9% | 56 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 310 days | 19.6% | 922 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 214 days | 22.7% | 2508 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 304 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 323 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 32 km away: 327 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 34 km away: 362 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 35 km away: 316 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 36 km away: 296 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 36 km away: 347 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 38 km away: 294 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Nepean Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Nepean Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 328 | 292 | 111 |
| 2017–18 | 340 | 306 | 119 |
| 2018–19 | 364 | 305 | 139 |
| 2019–20 | 272 | 286 | 127 |
| 2020–21 | 98 | 293 | 217 |
| 2021–22 | 229 | 290 | 154 |
| 2022–23 | 109 | 340 | 292 |
| 2023–24 | 231 | 318 | 274 |
| 2024–25 | 132 | 310 | 214 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Nepean Hospital · Keyhole sinus surgery across Australia · Keyhole sinus surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales