Bunion surgery waiting time at Wollongong Hospital
The median wait for bunion surgery — published by the source as "Bunion (hallux valgus) - removal of" — at this public hospital in the Wollongong area of New South Wales was 402 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
- 402 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 26 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 333 days in 2022–23 to 402 days in 2024–25 — up 21% — while the national median fell from 222 days to 183 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fairfield Hospital, about 63 km away, at 360 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wollongong Hospital | 402 days | not published | 26 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 285 days | 20.8% | 212 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 183 days | 16.2% | 616 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Wollongong Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Wollongong Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 281 | 137 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 252 | 121 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 267 | 142 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 277 | 137 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 323 | 262 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 318 | 231 |
| 2022–23 | 333 | 300 | 222 |
| 2023–24 | 380 | 267 | 206 |
| 2024–25 | 402 | 285 | 183 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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