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Brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in New South Wales public hospitals was 15 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 20 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Craniotomy".

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

14 public hospitals in New South Wales reported brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Craniotomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

1 hospital has 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 20 days marks the national median.

Craniotomy 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 Sydney Children's Hospital 2 days not published 12 surgeries
2 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 8 days not published 37 surgeries
2 Wollongong Hospital 8 days not published 40 surgeries
4 Concord Repatriation Hospital 10 days not published 22 surgeries
5 Westmead Hospital 12 days 0.0% 76 surgeries
6 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 16 days 0.0% 86 surgeries
6 St George Hospital NSW 16 days not published 20 surgeries
8 Liverpool Hospital 18 days 0.0% 59 surgeries
9 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 20 days not published 18 surgeries
10 Nepean Hospital 24 days 1.8% 57 surgeries
11 Prince of Wales Hospital 29 days not published 20 surgeries
12 John Hunter Hospital 36 days not published 27 surgeries
13 Royal North Shore Hospital 126 days not published 10 surgeries
unranked Mount Druitt Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Randwick.

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The median wait for brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in New South Wales public hospitals was 15 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Brain surgery through the skull (craniotomy) in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/craniotomy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/craniotomy/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.