Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Kempsey District Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pterygium - excision of at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 293 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 24 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 45 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Kempsey District Hospital	293 days	not published	24 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	346 days	32.1%	735 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	197 days	15.7%	2442 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.

Macksville District HospitalNSW · about 41 km away350 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 155 km away360 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 181 km away329 days
Kurri Kurri HospitalNSW · about 234 km away356 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Kempsey District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	234	260	128
2017–18	138	277	152
2018–19	152	275	125
2019–20	243	315	155
2020–21	329	331	230
2021–22	259	306	238
2022–23	284	329	241
2023–24	251	317	191
2024–25	293	346	197

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at Kempsey District Hospital · Pterygium - excision of across Australia · Pterygium - excision of in New South Wales