Limb amputation waiting time at Westmead Hospital
Half of patients at Westmead Hospital waited 12 days or less for limb amputation in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Amputation of limb". 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
- 12 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 22 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 22 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 7 days in 2018–19 to 12 days in 2024–25 — up 71% — while the national median rose from 12 days to 14 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 692 km away, at 3 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Amputation of limb" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmead Hospital | 12 days | not published | 22 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 94 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 10 days | 1.2% | 338 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 14 days | 1.2% | 761 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 14 days marks the national median.
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 118 km away: 22 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon], VIC · about 637 km away: 13 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 688 km away: 16 days
Box Hill Hospital, VIC · about 692 km away: 3 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], VIC · about 692 km away: 7 days
Dandenong Hospital, VIC · about 696 km away: 8 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 697 km away: 7 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 701 km away: 12 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Westmead Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Westmead Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | not published | 11 |
| 2017–18 | not published | not published | 13 |
| 2018–19 | 7 | 7 | 12 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 11 |
| 2020–21 | not published | not published | 13 |
| 2021–22 | 14 | not published | 14 |
| 2022–23 | 19 | not published | 14 |
| 2023–24 | not published | not published | 14 |
| 2024–25 | 12 | not published | 14 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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