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Keyhole sinus surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for keyhole sinus surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 310 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 214 days. 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.

33 public hospitals in New South Wales reported keyhole sinus surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

9 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 214 days marks the national median.

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery 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 Royal North Shore Hospital 99 days not published 20 surgeries
2 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 107 days not published 31 surgeries
3 Murwillumbah District Hospital 111 days not published 11 surgeries
4 Nepean Hospital 132 days 8.9% 56 surgeries
5 Dubbo Hospital 145 days not published 12 surgeries
6 Gosford Hospital 168 days 31.7% 60 surgeries
7 Tamworth Hospital 204 days not published 14 surgeries
8 Orange Health Service 236 days not published 24 surgeries
9 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 294 days not published 24 surgeries
10 Wollongong Hospital 295 days 4.5% 67 surgeries
11 Concord Repatriation Hospital 296 days 0.0% 111 surgeries
12 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 299 days not published 16 surgeries
13 Westmead Hospital 304 days not published 38 surgeries
14 Ryde Hospital 316 days not published 34 surgeries
15 Liverpool Hospital 323 days not published 43 surgeries
16 Auburn Hospital 327 days not published 46 surgeries
17 Tweed Valley Hospital 340 days not published 45 surgeries
18 Campbelltown Hospital 347 days not published 29 surgeries
19 Canterbury Hospital 352 days not published 34 surgeries
20 Wagga Wagga Hospital 359 days not published 33 surgeries
21 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 362 days not published 19 surgeries
22 Prince of Wales Hospital 371 days not published 41 surgeries
23 Coffs Harbour Hospital 377 days 59.6% 57 surgeries
24 John Hunter Hospital 390 days not published 18 surgeries
unranked Belmont Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Hawkesbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kurri Kurri Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Lismore Base Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published not published
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published not published
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published 6 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Liverpool · near St Leonards · near Westmead.

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The median wait for keyhole sinus surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 310 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Keyhole sinus surgery waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/functional-endoscopic-sinus-surgery/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/functional-endoscopic-sinus-surgery/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.