Surgery Waits

Varicose vein surgery waiting time at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital

The median wait for varicose vein surgery — published by the source as "Varicose veins treatment" — at this public hospital in the Condell Park area of New South Wales was 74 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
74 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
41 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 307 days in 2011–12 to 74 days in 2024–25 — down 76% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 133 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 Varicose veins treatment, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital74 daysnot published41 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)255 days9.4%1099 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)133 days9.5%3346 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 133 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 varicose veins treatment by financial year at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 74NSW 255Australia 133
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Varicose veins treatment, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBankstown Lidcombe Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12307100103
2012–132949796
2013–1419312297
2014–15239142105
2015–16213135104
2016–1720412190
2017–18281127101
2018–19273163108
2019–2071169129
2020–21237262223
2021–22376267208
2022–23139290216
2023–2473241189
2024–2574255133

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

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