Surgery Waits

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery waiting time at Murwillumbah District Hospital

The median wait for functional endoscopic sinus surgery at this public hospital in the South Murwillumbah area of New South Wales was 111 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
111 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 14 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 292 days in 2016–17 to 111 days in 2024–25 — down 62% — while the national median rose from 111 days to 214 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gold Coast University Hospital, about 41 km away, at 81 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Functional endoscopic sinus surgery" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
Murwillumbah District Hospital111 daysnot published11 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 Murwillumbah District Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Murwillumbah District Hospital 111NSW 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 periodMurwillumbah District Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17292292111
2017–18263306119
2018–19not published305139
2019–20not published286127
2020–21135293217
2021–22not published290154
2022–23not published340292
2023–24not published318274
2024–25111310214

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

All surgery at Murwillumbah District Hospital · Functional endoscopic sinus surgery across Australia · Functional endoscopic sinus surgery in New South Wales