Laparoscopy waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Leura area of New South Wales was 325 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 325 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 15.8%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 147 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 73 days in 2016–17 to 325 days in 2024–25 — up 345% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 37 km away, at 291 days. Here, 15.8% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 5.4%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laparoscopy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Blue Mountains Hospital	325 days	15.8%	57 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	70 days	6.0%	2149 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	69 days	5.4%	9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

Nepean HospitalNSW · about 37 km away291 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 47 km away109 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 56 km away84 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 57 km away132 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 61 km away92 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 61 km away9 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 63 km away25 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 63 km away62 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 Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Blue Mountains Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	73	50	47
2017–18	83	54	51
2018–19	53	58	57
2019–20	76	66	64
2020–21	133	79	79
2021–22	104	69	78
2022–23	96	74	82
2023–24	84	59	69
2024–25	325	70	69

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Blue Mountains Hospital · Laparoscopy across Australia · Laparoscopy in New South Wales