Excess eyelid skin removal waiting time at Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital
Half of patients at Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital waited 378 days or less for excess eyelid skin removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Blepharoplasty". This public hospital is in the Sydney 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
- 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.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital | 378 days | not published | 34 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 335 days | 27.0% | 174 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 246 days | 23.0% | 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.
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 22 km away: 294 days
Kurri Kurri Hospital, NSW · about 118 km away: 355 days
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, NSW · about 217 km away: 156 days
Tamworth Hospital, NSW · about 312 km away: 342 days
Kempsey District Hospital, NSW · about 346 km away: 200 days
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
- Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 335 | 263 | 85 |
| 2017–18 | 232 | 222 | 111 |
| 2018–19 | 237 | 211 | 126 |
| 2019–20 | 257 | 262 | 128 |
| 2020–21 | 297 | 278 | 245 |
| 2021–22 | 177 | 250 | 149 |
| 2022–23 | 392 | 308 | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 353 | 307 | 262 |
| 2024–25 | 378 | 335 | 246 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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