Surgery Waits

Ectropion - correction of waiting time at Shellharbour Hospital

The median wait for ectropion - correction of at this public hospital in the Shellharbour City Centre area of New South Wales was 332 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
332 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 37 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 315 days in 2016–17 to 332 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — while the national median rose from 77 days to 136 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Liverpool Hospital, about 72 km away, at 202 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Ectropion - correction of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Shellharbour Hospital332 daysnot published17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)275 days23.0%313 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)136 days15.4%1020 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 136 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 ectropion - correction of by financial year at Shellharbour Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Shellharbour Hospital 332NSW 275Australia 136
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Ectropion - correction of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodShellharbour Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1731517877
2017–187814684
2018–1923412587
2019–2011112693
2020–21116214128
2021–22not published248111
2022–23110228140
2023–24313253147
2024–25332275136

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

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