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Varicose vein surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for varicose vein surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 255 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 133 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Varicose veins treatment".

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

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

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

14 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 133 days marks the national median.

Varicose veins treatment 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 Gosford Hospital 20 days not published 15 surgeries
2 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 74 days not published 41 surgeries
3 St George Hospital NSW 86 days not published 26 surgeries
4 Wyong Hospital 102 days 7.0% 71 surgeries
5 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 118 days not published 42 surgeries
6 Wauchope District Memorial Hospital 128 days not published 47 surgeries
7 Lismore Base Hospital 139 days not published 49 surgeries
8 Ballina District Hospital 154 days 0.0% 67 surgeries
9 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 240 days not published 12 surgeries
10 Sutherland Hospital 244 days not published 10 surgeries
11 John Hunter Hospital 253 days not published 12 surgeries
12 Concord Repatriation Hospital 261 days 0.0% 159 surgeries
13 Blue Mountains Hospital 282 days 5.5% 55 surgeries
14 Northern Beaches Hospital 301 days not published 17 surgeries
15 Auburn Hospital 306 days 0.0% 114 surgeries
16 Nepean Hospital 319 days not published 37 surgeries
17 Fairfield Hospital 320 days not published 36 surgeries
18 Wagga Wagga Hospital 331 days 29.8% 57 surgeries
19 Mount Druitt Hospital 346 days not published 46 surgeries
20 Blacktown Hospital 349 days 1.9% 52 surgeries
21 Wollongong Hospital 362 days not published 48 surgeries
22 Tamworth Hospital 371 days not published 24 surgeries
23 Coffs Harbour Hospital 462 days not published 14 surgeries
unranked Bathurst Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Casino and District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Cowra Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Goulburn Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Grafton Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Manning Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Orange Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Port Macquarie Base Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Ryde Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Tweed Valley Hospital not published not published not published

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

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The median wait for varicose vein surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 255 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/varicose-vein-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.