Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Condell Park area of New South Wales was 323 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 323 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 29 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 65 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.
The median wait here has risen from 178 days in 2016–17 to 323 days in 2024–25 — up 81% — while the national median rose from 128 days to 197 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 16 km away, at 44 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital | 323 days | not published | 29 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 346 days | 32.1% | 735 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 178 | 260 | 128 |
| 2017–18 | 215 | 277 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 172 | 275 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 315 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | 247 | 331 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 306 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | 295 | 329 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | 230 | 317 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 323 | 346 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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