Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Westmead Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery 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: 304 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 38 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 64 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 Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Westmead Hospital	304 days	not published	38 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	310 days	19.6%	922 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	214 days	22.7%	2508 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 days marks the national median.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 7 km away327 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 9 km away316 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away296 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away323 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away362 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away294 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away352 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 19 km away99 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 Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	240	292	111
2017–18	271	306	119
2018–19	94	305	139
2019–20	171	286	127
2020–21	238	293	217
2021–22	415	290	154
2022–23	339	340	292
2023–24	287	318	274
2024–25	304	310	214

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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