Surgery Waits

Dacryocystorhinostomy waiting time at Westmead Hospital

The median wait for dacryocystorhinostomy at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 355 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
355 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 10 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 86 days in 2016–17 to 355 days in 2024–25 — up 313% — while the national median rose from 155 days to 254 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 210 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Dacryocystorhinostomy" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Dacryocystorhinostomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Westmead Hospital355 daysnot published14 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)307 days28.7%181 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)254 days25.2%333 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 254 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 dacryocystorhinostomy by financial year at Westmead Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01883755637502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Westmead Hospital 355NSW 307Australia 254
  • Westmead Hospital
  • NSW
  • Australia
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Dacryocystorhinostomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodWestmead Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1786219155
2017–18141140135
2018–19194193152
2019–20264188118
2020–21371312256
2021–22256157136
2022–23603283238
2023–24418283211
2024–25355307254

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

All surgery at Westmead Hospital · Dacryocystorhinostomy across Australia · Dacryocystorhinostomy in New South Wales