Septoplasty waiting time at Westmead 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: 218 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 32 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
Westmead Hospital	218 days	not published	17 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.

The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 0 km away318 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 7 km away330 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 9 km away306 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away277 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away344 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away367 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away319 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away353 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	Westmead Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	234	320	160
2012–13	199	327	197
2013–14	279	324	221
2014–15	182	322	214
2015–16	100	317	209
2016–17	313	322	209
2017–18	314	328	248
2018–19	230	328	241
2019–20	301	332	277
2020–21	343	351	330
2021–22	449	363	315
2022–23	380	398	365
2023–24	363	349	332
2024–25	218	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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