Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Westmead Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - 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: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 54 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 30 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 Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Westmead Hospital	47 days	not published	44 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	44 days	5.6%	446 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	45 days	4.1%	1742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 45 days marks the national median.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 7 km away21 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away29 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away64 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away66 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 19 km away16 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 23 km away21 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 23 km away44 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 26 km away25 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 Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	54	31	30
2017–18	88	37	38
2018–19	97	41	37
2019–20	42	37	41
2020–21	29	47	42
2021–22	25	37	34
2022–23	62	57	44
2023–24	71	50	43
2024–25	47	44	45

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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