Surgery Waits

Blepharoplasty waiting time at Lismore Base Hospital

The median wait for blepharoplasty at this public hospital in the Lismore area of New South Wales was 271 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
271 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 148 km away, at 28 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Blepharoplasty" 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 Blepharoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Lismore Base Hospital271 daysnot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)335 days27.0%174 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)98 days11.7%145 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)246 days23.0%666 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 246 days marks the national median.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for blepharoplasty by financial year at Lismore Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Lismore Base Hospital 271NSW 335Australia 246
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Blepharoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodLismore Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published26385
2017–18not published222111
2018–19not published211126
2019–20not reported for this period262128
2020–21not reported for this period278245
2021–22not published250149
2022–23not published308254
2023–24not published307262
2024–25271335246

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

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