Surgery Waits

Scar revision waiting time at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital

The median wait for scar revision at this public hospital in the Condell Park area of New South Wales was 125 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
125 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
32 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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 67 days in 2017–18 to 125 days in 2024–25 — up 87% — while the national median rose from 67 days to 83 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 15 km away, at 75 days.

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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
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital125 daysnot published32 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 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 125NSW 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 periodBankstown Lidcombe Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6965
2017–18676367
2018–19478073
2019–20699083
2020–21919184
2021–22342159121
2022–2311988133
2023–24184104103
2024–2512513183

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

All surgery at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital · Scar revision across Australia · Scar revision in New South Wales