Pharyngoplasty waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Half of patients at The Children's Hospital at Westmead waited 137 days or less for pharyngoplasty in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Westmead 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
- 137 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 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 1 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 182 days in 2016–17 to 137 days in 2024–25 — down 25%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital at Westmead | 137 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 19 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 51 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 182 | not published | not published |
| 2017–18 | 86 | not published | not published |
| 2018–19 | 117 | not published | not published |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | not published |
| 2020–21 | 43 | not published | not published |
| 2021–22 | 71 | not published | not published |
| 2022–23 | 130 | not published | not published |
| 2023–24 | 37 | not published | not published |
| 2024–25 | 137 | not published | not published |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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