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Excess eyelid skin removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for excess eyelid skin removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 335 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 246 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Blepharoplasty".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

26 public hospitals in New South Wales reported excess eyelid skin removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

19 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.

Blepharoplasty in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 156 days not published 10 surgeries
2 Kempsey District Hospital 200 days not published 18 surgeries
3 Lismore Base Hospital 271 days not published 10 surgeries
4 Westmead Hospital 294 days not published 11 surgeries
5 Tamworth Hospital 342 days not published 17 surgeries
6 Kurri Kurri Hospital 355 days not published 15 surgeries
7 Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital 378 days not published 34 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Bathurst Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Belmont Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Concord Repatriation Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Dubbo Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Gosford Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Manning Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Moree Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Port Macquarie Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Royal Prince Alfred Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Shellharbour Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published not published
unranked Wagga Wagga Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Wollongong Hospital not published not published not published
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The median wait for excess eyelid skin removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 335 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Excess eyelid skin removal waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/blepharoplasty/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/blepharoplasty/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.