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Spinal bone removal (laminectomy) waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in New South Wales public hospitals was 87 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 66 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Laminectomy".

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

18 public hospitals in New South Wales reported spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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

7 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 66 days marks the national median.

Laminectomy 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 Westmead Hospital 46 days 1.3% 80 surgeries
2 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 52 days 0.0% 59 surgeries
3 Wollongong Hospital 80 days not published 35 surgeries
4 Royal North Shore Hospital 81 days not published 23 surgeries
5 Concord Repatriation Hospital 82 days not published 33 surgeries
6 Liverpool Hospital 86 days 16.8% 95 surgeries
7 Nepean Hospital 123 days not published 36 surgeries
8 St George Hospital NSW 141 days 5.9% 51 surgeries
9 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 192 days not published 19 surgeries
10 John Hunter Hospital 275 days 31.5% 130 surgeries
11 Wagga Wagga Hospital 354 days not published 24 surgeries
unranked Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Bowral Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Casino and District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Maitland Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Sydney Children's Hospital not published not published not published
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published 8 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown.

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The median wait for spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in New South Wales public hospitals was 87 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Spinal bone removal (laminectomy) waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/laminectomy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

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