Westmead Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Westmead Hospital is a public hospital in New South Wales. It reported 15 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 27 days | 310 surgeries | 6.5% |
| Cystoscopy | 28 days | 1589 surgeries | 1.4% |
| Coronary artery bypass grafting | 36 days | 193 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 63 days | 186 surgeries | 1.6% |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 107 days | 71 surgeries | 15.5% |
| Total hip replacement | 109 days | 30 surgeries | not published |
| Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) | 110 days | 65 surgeries | 12.3% |
| Septoplasty | 218 days | 17 surgeries | not published |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 249 days | 17 surgeries | not published |
| Total knee replacement | 345 days | 72 surgeries | 36.1% |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | 347 days | 25 surgeries | not published |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 351 days | 1774 surgeries | 44.6% |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | not published | 8 surgeries | not published |
| Myringotomy | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Varicose veins treatment | not published | not published | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 14 days | 100% | 3321 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 69 days | 64% | 4959 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 370 days | 47% | 2540 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.