Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Murwillumbah 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: 275 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 41 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
Murwillumbah District Hospital	275 days	not published	16 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	346 days	32.1%	735 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	184 days	4.5%	512 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.

Robina HospitalQLD · about 28 km away192 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 41 km away229 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 55 km away355 days
Redland HospitalQLD · about 88 km away160 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 98 km away76 days
Mater Adult HospitalQLD · about 100 km away287 days
Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation ServiceQLD · about 104 km away218 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away360 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	Murwillumbah District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	322	260	128
2017–18	98	277	152
2018–19	not published	275	125
2019–20	70	315	155
2020–21	305	331	230
2021–22	140	306	238
2022–23	not published	329	241
2023–24	228	317	191
2024–25	275	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.

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