Surgery Waits

Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the North Tamworth area of New South Wales was 329 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
329 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
16.9%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 307 days in 2016–17 to 329 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Kempsey District Hospital, about 181 km away, at 293 days. Here, 16.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 15.7%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Tamworth Hospital329 days16.9%59 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)346 days32.1%735 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)197 days15.7%2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 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 pterygium - excision of by financial year at Tamworth Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tamworth Hospital 329NSW 346Australia 197
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodTamworth Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17307260128
2017–18305277152
2018–19294275125
2019–20321315155
2020–21346331230
2021–22259306238
2022–23349329241
2023–24344317191
2024–25329346197

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

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