Deviated septum surgery waiting time at Westmead Hospital
Half of patients at Westmead Hospital waited 218 days or less for deviated septum surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty". 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
- 218 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 17 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 234 days in 2011–12 to 218 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median rose from 160 days to 320 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Septoplasty" 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 | 218 days | not published | 17 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 340 days | 26.6% | 1713 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 320 days | 30.8% | 5687 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 days marks the national median.
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 0 km away: 318 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 330 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 306 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 277 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 344 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 367 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 319 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 353 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 234 | 320 | 160 |
| 2012–13 | 199 | 327 | 197 |
| 2013–14 | 279 | 324 | 221 |
| 2014–15 | 182 | 322 | 214 |
| 2015–16 | 100 | 317 | 209 |
| 2016–17 | 313 | 322 | 209 |
| 2017–18 | 314 | 328 | 248 |
| 2018–19 | 230 | 328 | 241 |
| 2019–20 | 301 | 332 | 277 |
| 2020–21 | 343 | 351 | 330 |
| 2021–22 | 449 | 363 | 315 |
| 2022–23 | 380 | 398 | 365 |
| 2023–24 | 363 | 349 | 332 |
| 2024–25 | 218 | 340 | 320 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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