Ovary and fallopian tube surgery waiting time at Westmead Hospital
Half of patients at Westmead Hospital waited 84 days or less for ovary and fallopian tube surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy". 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
- 84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 132 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 12.9%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 100 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 70 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2016–17 to 84 days in 2024–25 — up 211% — while the national median rose from 41 days to 56 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 7 km away, at 73 days. Here, 12.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 2.4%.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy" 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 | 84 days | 12.9% | 132 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 71 days | 5.3% | 1262 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 56 days | 2.4% | 4989 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 56 days marks the national median.
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 87 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 73 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 78 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 70 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 88 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 75 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 95 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 49 days
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 | 27 | 49 | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 28 | 51 | 43 |
| 2018–19 | 36 | 53 | 48 |
| 2019–20 | 41 | 59 | 50 |
| 2020–21 | 39 | 71 | 64 |
| 2021–22 | 59 | 69 | 63 |
| 2022–23 | 69 | 82 | 69 |
| 2023–24 | 33 | 63 | 57 |
| 2024–25 | 84 | 71 | 56 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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