Discectomy waiting time at Westmead Hospital
The median wait for discectomy at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 76 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
- 76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 31 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 30 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 89 days in 2016–17 to 76 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median stayed at 41 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 66 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmead Hospital | 76 days | not published | 31 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 56 days | 8.8% | 500 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 41 days | 4.5% | 1400 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
- Westmead Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Westmead Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 89 | 56 | 41 |
| 2017–18 | 34 | 60 | 42 |
| 2018–19 | 72 | 53 | 43 |
| 2019–20 | 57 | 56 | 49 |
| 2020–21 | 48 | 52 | 49 |
| 2021–22 | 41 | 54 | 49 |
| 2022–23 | 81 | 81 | 60 |
| 2023–24 | 65 | 62 | 48 |
| 2024–25 | 76 | 56 | 41 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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