Keyhole sinus surgery waiting times in Australian public hospitals
The national median wait for keyhole sinus surgery in Australian public hospitals was 214 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Hospital medians ranged from 34 days at University Hospital Geelong to 510 days at Port Pirie Regional Health Service. The source publishes this surgery as "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery".
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
Across Australia, the median wait for keyhole sinus surgery in public hospitals was 214 days in 2024–25, from 2508 surgeries. 22.7% of people waited more than 365 days. 64 public hospitals published a median wait for it.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery" 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 214 days marks the national median.
Queensland: 81 days
Victoria: 140 days
Western Australia: 173 days
South Australia: 267 days
New South Wales: 310 days
Northern Territory: not published
| Rank | State or territory | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queensland | 81 days | 6.5% | 107 surgeries |
| 2 | Victoria | 140 days | 24.1% | 967 surgeries |
| 3 | Western Australia | 173 days | 27.3% | 172 surgeries |
| 4 | South Australia | 267 days | 28.9% | 318 surgeries |
| 5 | New South Wales | 310 days | 19.6% | 922 surgeries |
| unranked | Northern Territory | not published | not published | 22 surgeries |
Ranked by area: near the Adelaide CBD · near Bedford Park · near Camperdown · near Clayton · near Liverpool · near St Leonards · and 7 more areas on the state pages.
How the wait has changed
- Australia
- QLD
- VIC
- WA
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Australia (days) | QLD (days) | VIC (days) | WA (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 111 | 83 | 63 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | 119 | 85 | 81 | 105 |
| 2018–19 | 139 | 76 | 93 | 100 |
| 2019–20 | 127 | 89 | 103 | 93 |
| 2020–21 | 217 | 89 | 167 | 153 |
| 2021–22 | 154 | 90 | 84 | 99 |
| 2022–23 | 292 | 117 | 238 | 143 |
| 2023–24 | 274 | not published | 265 | 150 |
| 2024–25 | 214 | 81 | 140 | 173 |
Common questions
How long is the wait for keyhole sinus surgery in a public hospital?
The national median was 214 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Half of people waited less than that, half waited longer. State medians ranged from 81 days in Queensland to 310 days in New South Wales.
Which public hospital has the shortest wait for keyhole sinus surgery?
Of the 64 public hospitals that published a median for 2024–25, University Hospital Geelong reported the shortest median, 34 days, and Port Pirie Regional Health Service the longest, 510 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?
22.7% of people who had keyhole sinus surgery 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 keyhole sinus surgery in Australian public hospitals was 214 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Keyhole sinus surgery waiting list by state, 2024–25", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/functional-endoscopic-sinus-surgery/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/functional-endoscopic-sinus-surgery/), 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/functional-endoscopic-sinus-surgery.svg" width="720" height="318" alt="Median public hospital waiting time for Keyhole sinus surgery 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.