Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Auburn Hospital
The median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Auburn area of New South Wales was 327 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
- 327 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 46 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 48 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 349 days in 2016–17 to 327 days in 2024–25 — down 6% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 214 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 6 km away, at 296 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn Hospital | 327 days | not published | 46 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 310 days | 19.6% | 922 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 214 days | 22.7% | 2508 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
- Auburn Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Auburn Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 349 | 292 | 111 |
| 2017–18 | 343 | 306 | 119 |
| 2018–19 | 332 | 305 | 139 |
| 2019–20 | 307 | 286 | 127 |
| 2020–21 | 353 | 293 | 217 |
| 2021–22 | 359 | 290 | 154 |
| 2022–23 | 315 | 340 | 292 |
| 2023–24 | 318 | 318 | 274 |
| 2024–25 | 327 | 310 | 214 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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