Scar revision waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Scar revision 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: 268 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 11 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 29 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 28 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 Scar revision, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Sydney Children's Hospital	268 days	not published	11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	131 days	7.6%	288 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	83 days	9.5%	1239 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 days marks the national median.

Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away130 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 km away125 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away75 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 28 km away281 days
Calvary Mater NewcastleNSW · about 122 km away214 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 Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sydney Children's Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	69	65
2017–18	not published	63	67
2018–19	not published	80	73
2019–20	not published	90	83
2020–21	not published	91	84
2021–22	not published	159	121
2022–23	230	88	133
2023–24	112	104	103
2024–25	268	131	83

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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