Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Westmead Hospital
The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 396 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
- 396 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 39 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 203 days in 2016–17 to 396 days in 2024–25 — up 95% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 15 km away, at 323 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmead Hospital | 396 days | not published | 39 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 346 days | 32.1% | 735 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
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 | 203 | 260 | 128 |
| 2017–18 | 224 | 277 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 333 | 275 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | 347 | 315 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 368 | 331 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | 365 | 306 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 360 | 329 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 368 | 317 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 396 | 346 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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