Varicose veins treatment waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Varicose veins treatment 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: 282 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 55 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 5.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 48 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 Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Blue Mountains Hospital	282 days	5.5%	55 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	255 days	9.4%	1099 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	133 days	9.5%	3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 days marks the national median.

Nepean HospitalNSW · about 37 km away319 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 48 km away346 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 56 km away349 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 57 km away320 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 68 km away306 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 69 km away74 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 73 km away261 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 73 km away240 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 Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Blue Mountains Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not published	100	103
2012–13	not reported for this period	97	96
2013–14	not reported for this period	122	97
2014–15	not reported for this period	142	105
2015–16	176	135	104
2016–17	69	121	90
2017–18	237	127	101
2018–19	255	163	108
2019–20	260	169	129
2020–21	329	262	223
2021–22	279	267	208
2022–23	193	290	216
2023–24	283	241	189
2024–25	282	255	133

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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