Surgery Waits

Scar revision waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for scar revision at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 75 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
75 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 29 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 181 days in 2017–18 to 75 days in 2024–25 — down 59% — while the national median rose from 67 days to 83 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Scar revision, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead75 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)131 days7.6%288 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)83 days9.5%1239 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 83 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 scar revision by financial year at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Children's Hospital at Westmead 75NSW 131Australia 83
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Scar revision, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6965
2017–181816367
2018–19not published8073
2019–20not published9083
2020–21not published9184
2021–22not published159121
2022–2318388133
2023–24not published104103
2024–257513183

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

All surgery at The Children's Hospital at Westmead · Scar revision across Australia · Scar revision in New South Wales