Blue Mountains Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Blue Mountains Hospital is a public hospital in New South Wales. It reported 25 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 14 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toenail surgery | 27 days | 12 surgeries | not published |
| Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage | 51 days | 202 surgeries | 1.5% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 61 days | 118 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Skin lesion - excision of | 62 days | 77 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) | 64 days | 27 surgeries | not published |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 84 days | 111 surgeries | 1.8% |
| Herniorrhaphy | 213 days | 50 surgeries | 2.0% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 281 days | 539 surgeries | 3.0% |
| Varicose veins treatment | 282 days | 55 surgeries | 5.5% |
| Pterygium - excision of | 290 days | 12 surgeries | not published |
| Endometrial ablation | 298 days | 28 surgeries | not published |
| Laparoscopy | 325 days | 57 surgeries | 15.8% |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 345 days | 74 surgeries | 23.0% |
| Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy | 346 days | 26 surgeries | not published |
| Anal fissure - repair of | not published | not published | not published |
| Bartholin's abscess drainage | not published | not published | not published |
| Circumcision | not published | not published | not published |
| Curettage and evacuation of uterus | not published | 8 surgeries | not published |
| Cystoscopy | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Dermoid cyst - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Epididymal cyst - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Female sterilisation | not published | not published | not published |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Pilonidal sinus surgery | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior | not published | not published | not published |
| Blepharoplasty last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy last reported 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Carpal tunnel release last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Cone biopsy last reported 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Cystectomy last reported 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Diathermy of wart/s last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Dupytren's contracture release last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Ectropion - correction of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Examination of eye under anaesthesia last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Ganglion - excision of last reported 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Hydrocele - repair of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Mastectomy last reported 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Myomectomy last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Trabeculectomy last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 21 days | 99% | 99 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 62 days | 92% | 521 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 293 days | 93% | 872 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.