Surgery Waits

Blepharoplasty waiting time at Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital

The median wait for blepharoplasty at this public hospital in the Sydney area of New South Wales was 378 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
378 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
34 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 335 days in 2016–17 to 378 days in 2024–25 — up 13% — while the national median rose from 85 days to 246 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 22 km away, at 294 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Blepharoplasty" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Blepharoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital378 daysnot published34 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)335 days27.0%174 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)246 days23.0%666 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for blepharoplasty by financial year at Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital 378NSW 335Australia 246
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Blepharoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1733526385
2017–18232222111
2018–19237211126
2019–20257262128
2020–21297278245
2021–22177250149
2022–23392308254
2023–24353307262
2024–25378335246

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

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