Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Blue Mountains Hospital
The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the Leura area of New South Wales was 282 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
- 282 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 55 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 5.5%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 64 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 176 days in 2015–16 to 282 days in 2024–25 — up 60% — while the national median rose from 104 days to 133 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 69 km away, at 74 days. Here, 5.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 9.5%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountains Hospital | 282 days | 5.5% | 55 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 255 days | 9.4% | 1099 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 133 days | 9.5% | 3346 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
- Blue Mountains Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blue Mountains Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not published | 100 | 103 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 97 | 96 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 122 | 97 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 142 | 105 |
| 2015–16 | 176 | 135 | 104 |
| 2016–17 | 69 | 121 | 90 |
| 2017–18 | 237 | 127 | 101 |
| 2018–19 | 255 | 163 | 108 |
| 2019–20 | 260 | 169 | 129 |
| 2020–21 | 329 | 262 | 223 |
| 2021–22 | 279 | 267 | 208 |
| 2022–23 | 193 | 290 | 216 |
| 2023–24 | 283 | 241 | 189 |
| 2024–25 | 282 | 255 | 133 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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