Surgery Waits

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital

The median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Tweed Heads area of New South Wales was 340 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
340 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
45 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 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 296 days in 2016–17 to 340 days in 2024–25 — up 15% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 214 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Murwillumbah District Hospital, about 22 km away, at 111 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Tweed Valley Hospital340 daysnot published45 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)310 days19.6%922 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)81 days6.5%107 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)214 days22.7%2508 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 214 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 functional endoscopic sinus surgery by financial year at Tweed Valley Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tweed Valley Hospital 340NSW 310Australia 214
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodTweed Valley Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17296292111
2017–18314306119
2018–19309305139
2019–20306286127
2020–2147293217
2021–22165290154
2022–23340340292
2023–24357318274
2024–25340310214

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

All surgery at Tweed Valley Hospital · Functional endoscopic sinus surgery across Australia · Functional endoscopic sinus surgery in New South Wales