Surgery Waits

Lithotripsy waiting time at Concord Repatriation Hospital

The median wait for lithotripsy at this public hospital in the Concord West area of New South Wales was 52 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
52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
61 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 9 days in 2018–19 to 52 days in 2024–25 — up 478% — while the national median fell from 36 days to 28 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Canterbury Hospital, about 9 km away, at 34 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.8%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Lithotripsy" 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 Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Concord Repatriation Hospital52 days0.0%61 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)28 days0.7%1134 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)28 days0.8%2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for lithotripsy by financial year at Concord Repatriation Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Concord Repatriation Hospital 52NSW 28Australia 28
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodConcord Repatriation Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this periodnot reported for this period34
2017–18not reported for this periodnot reported for this period29
2018–1993636
2019–20452728
2020–21813134
2021–22292733
2022–23262830
2023–24352828
2024–25522828

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

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