Nerve decompression waiting time at Shellharbour Hospital
The median wait for nerve decompression at this public hospital in the Shellharbour City Centre area of New South Wales was 356 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
- 356 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 23 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 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 330 days in 2020–21 to 356 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median fell from 114 days to 96 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 15 km away, at 63 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shellharbour Hospital | 356 days | not published | 23 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
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Shellharbour Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Shellharbour Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 92 | 83 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 99 | 90 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 87 | 77 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 81 | 80 |
| 2020–21 | 330 | 126 | 114 |
| 2021–22 | 362 | 106 | 92 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 137 | 121 |
| 2023–24 | 414 | 112 | 103 |
| 2024–25 | 356 | 115 | 96 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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