Blue Mountains Hospital surgery waiting times
In 2024–25, this public hospital in the Leura area of New South Wales published median waits from 27 days for toenail surgery to 346 days for salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
Blue Mountains Hospital is a public hospital in the Leura area of New South Wales. It is part of Nepean Blue Mountains. It reported 25 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 14 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.
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Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toenail surgery | 27 days | 12 surgeries | not published |
| Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage | 51 days | 202 surgeries | 1.5% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 61 days | 118 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Skin lesion - excision of | 62 days | 77 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) | 64 days | 27 surgeries | not published |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 84 days | 111 surgeries | 1.8% |
| Herniorrhaphy | 213 days | 50 surgeries | 2.0% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 281 days | 539 surgeries | 3.0% |
| Varicose veins treatment | 282 days | 55 surgeries | 5.5% |
| Pterygium - excision of | 290 days | 12 surgeries | not published |
| Endometrial ablation | 298 days | 28 surgeries | not published |
| Laparoscopy | 325 days | 57 surgeries | 15.8% |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 345 days | 74 surgeries | 23.0% |
| Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy | 346 days | 26 surgeries | not published |
| Anal fissure - repair of | not published | not published | not published |
| Bartholin's abscess drainage | not published | not published | not published |
| Circumcision | not published | not published | not published |
| Curettage and evacuation of uterus | not published | 8 surgeries | not published |
| Cystoscopy | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Dermoid cyst - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Epididymal cyst - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Female sterilisation | not published | not published | not published |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Pilonidal sinus surgery | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior | not published | not published | not published |
| Blepharoplasty last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy last reported 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Carpal tunnel release last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Cone biopsy last reported 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Cystectomy last reported 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Diathermy of wart/s last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Dupytren's contracture release last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Ectropion - correction of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Examination of eye under anaesthesia last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Ganglion - excision of last reported 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Hydrocele - repair of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Mastectomy last reported 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Myomectomy last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Trabeculectomy last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
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. What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 21 days | 99% | 99 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 62 days | 92% | 521 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 293 days | 93% | 872 surgeries |
Cite this page
In 2024–25, Blue Mountains Hospital published median planned-surgery waits from 27 days for toenail surgery to 346 days for salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy.
Copy-ready citation
Surgery Waits, "Blue Mountains Hospital wait times and waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blue-mountains-hospital/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/blue-mountains-hospital/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.