Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 25 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 25 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 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 54 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2016–17 to 25 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 30 days to 45 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 32 km away, at 21 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Nepean Hospital	25 days	not published	28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	44 days	5.6%	446 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	45 days	4.1%	1742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 45 days marks the national median.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 26 km away47 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 27 km away64 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 32 km away21 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 34 km away66 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 36 km away29 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 45 km away16 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 45 km away21 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 49 km away44 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Parotidectomy/submandibular gland - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Nepean Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	24	31	30
2017–18	83	37	38
2018–19	16	41	37
2019–20	41	37	41
2020–21	33	47	42
2021–22	36	37	34
2022–23	26	57	44
2023–24	113	50	43
2024–25	25	44	45

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

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