Septoplasty waiting time at John Hunter Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Septoplasty 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: 413 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 103 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 88 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 Septoplasty, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
John Hunter Hospital	413 days	not published	10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	26.6%	1713 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	320 days	30.8%	5687 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 320 days marks the national median.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 12 km away367 days
Kurri Kurri HospitalNSW · about 24 km away242 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 64 km away372 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 102 km away319 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 110 km away340 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 111 km away362 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 112 km away306 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 115 km away182 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 Septoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	John Hunter Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	156	320	160
2012–13	292	327	197
2013–14	132	324	221
2014–15	83	322	214
2015–16	88	317	209
2016–17	302	322	209
2017–18	115	328	248
2018–19	187	328	241
2019–20	319	332	277
2020–21	373	351	330
2021–22	not published	363	315
2022–23	not published	398	365
2023–24	344	349	332
2024–25	413	340	320

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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