Keyhole sinus surgery waiting time at Tamworth Hospital
Half of patients at Tamworth Hospital waited 204 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 North Tamworth 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
- 204 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 86 days in 2022–23 to 204 days in 2024–25 — up 137% — while the national median fell from 292 days to 214 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Dubbo Hospital, about 254 km away, at 145 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamworth Hospital | 204 days | not published | 14 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.
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 218 km away: 390 days
Coffs Harbour Hospital, NSW · about 224 km away: 377 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 254 km away: 145 days
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 264 km away: 168 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 293 km away: 294 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 299 km away: 132 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 303 km away: 316 days
Orange Health Service, NSW · about 303 km away: 236 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
- Tamworth Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Tamworth Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 292 | 111 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 306 | 119 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 305 | 139 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 286 | 127 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 293 | 217 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 290 | 154 |
| 2022–23 | 86 | 340 | 292 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 318 | 274 |
| 2024–25 | 204 | 310 | 214 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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