Excess eyelid skin removal waiting times in Australian public hospitals
The national median wait for excess eyelid skin removal in Australian public hospitals was 246 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Hospital medians ranged from 28 days at Princess Alexandra Hospital to 473 days at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service. The source publishes this surgery as "Blepharoplasty".
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
Across Australia, the median wait for excess eyelid skin removal in public hospitals was 246 days in 2024–25, from 666 surgeries. 23.0% of people waited more than 365 days. 23 public hospitals published a median wait for it.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Blepharoplasty" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
State by state
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.
Queensland: 98 days
Victoria: 189 days
New South Wales: 335 days
Northern Territory: not published
South Australia: not published
Western Australia: not published
| Rank | State or territory | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queensland | 98 days | 11.7% | 145 surgeries |
| 2 | Victoria | 189 days | 18.0% | 205 surgeries |
| 3 | New South Wales | 335 days | 27.0% | 174 surgeries |
| unranked | Northern Territory | not published | not published | not published |
| unranked | South Australia | not published | not published | 54 surgeries |
| unranked | Western Australia | not published | not published | 87 surgeries |
Ranked by area: near the Adelaide CBD.
How the wait has changed
- Australia
- QLD
- VIC
- NSW
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| Reference period | Australia (days) | QLD (days) | VIC (days) | NSW (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 85 | not published | 49 | 263 |
| 2017–18 | 111 | 68 | 68 | 222 |
| 2018–19 | 126 | 111 | 77 | 211 |
| 2019–20 | 128 | 90 | 81 | 262 |
| 2020–21 | 245 | not published | 241 | 278 |
| 2021–22 | 149 | not published | 108 | 250 |
| 2022–23 | 254 | 101 | 245 | 308 |
| 2023–24 | 262 | 83 | 356 | 307 |
| 2024–25 | 246 | 98 | 189 | 335 |
Common questions
How long is the wait for excess eyelid skin removal in a public hospital?
The national median was 246 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 98 days in Queensland to 335 days in New South Wales.
Which public hospital has the shortest wait for excess eyelid skin removal?
Of the 23 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, Princess Alexandra Hospital reported the shortest median, 28 days, and Fremantle Hospital and Health Service the longest, 473 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). A shorter median is not a recommendation. How to read these figures.
How many people waited more than a year?
23.0% of people who had excess eyelid skin removal in an Australian public hospital in 2024–25 waited more than 365 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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The national median wait for excess eyelid skin removal in Australian public hospitals was 246 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Excess eyelid skin removal waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/blepharoplasty/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/blepharoplasty/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
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<img src="https://surgerywaits.au/charts/blepharoplasty.svg" width="720" height="250" alt="Median public hospital waiting time for Excess eyelid skin removal by state and territory, 2024–25">What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.
The source calls this collection "elective surgery". This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.