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Deviated septum surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for deviated septum surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 340 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 320 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Septoplasty".

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

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

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

3 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 320 days marks the national median.

Septoplasty 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 Prince Alfred Hospital 74 days 0.0% 84 surgeries
2 Murwillumbah District Hospital 179 days not published 29 surgeries
3 St George Hospital NSW 181 days not published 29 surgeries
4 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 182 days not published 14 surgeries
5 Westmead Hospital 218 days not published 17 surgeries
6 Kurri Kurri Hospital 242 days not published 21 surgeries
7 Bathurst Base Hospital 264 days not published 18 surgeries
8 Concord Repatriation Hospital 277 days 0.0% 131 surgeries
9 Nepean Hospital 291 days 9.2% 87 surgeries
10 Ryde Hospital 306 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
11 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 318 days not published 12 surgeries
12 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 319 days not published 43 surgeries
13 Auburn Hospital 330 days 0.7% 145 surgeries
14 Mudgee Health Service 337 days not published 17 surgeries
15 Royal North Shore Hospital 340 days 21.9% 64 surgeries
16 Orange Health Service 342 days 31.1% 61 surgeries
17 Liverpool Hospital 344 days not published 31 surgeries
18 Wollongong Hospital 348 days 15.7% 89 surgeries
19 Campbelltown Hospital 349 days not published 23 surgeries
20 Canterbury Hospital 353 days 10.8% 93 surgeries
21 Prince of Wales Hospital 361 days 43.5% 62 surgeries
22 Hawkesbury Hospital 362 days not published 13 surgeries
23 Tweed Valley Hospital 363 days not published 44 surgeries
24 Wagga Wagga Hospital 366 days 50.6% 77 surgeries
25 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 367 days 50.6% 85 surgeries
25 Belmont Hospital 367 days not published 10 surgeries
27 Sutherland Hospital 368 days 51.9% 54 surgeries
28 Gosford Hospital 372 days 57.0% 135 surgeries
29 Dubbo Hospital 395 days 64.3% 70 surgeries
30 John Hunter Hospital 413 days not published 10 surgeries
31 Coffs Harbour Hospital 433 days not published 48 surgeries
32 Lismore Base Hospital 462 days not published 14 surgeries
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Sydney Children's Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Tamworth Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries

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

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The median wait for deviated septum surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 340 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Deviated septum surgery waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/septoplasty/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

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

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