Surgery Waits

Trabeculectomy waiting time at Shellharbour Hospital

The median wait for trabeculectomy at this public hospital in the Shellharbour City Centre area of New South Wales was 77 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
77 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 19 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 70 days in 2021–22 to 77 days in 2024–25 — up 10% — while the national median rose from 21 days to 32 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 72 km away, at 12 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Trabeculectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Shellharbour Hospital77 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)54 days0.0%303 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)32 days0.1%716 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 32 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 trabeculectomy by financial year at Shellharbour Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Shellharbour Hospital 77NSW 54Australia 32
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Trabeculectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodShellharbour Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published4721
2017–18not published4224
2018–19not published4827
2019–20not published4124
2020–21not published3021
2021–22703321
2022–23775428
2023–24not published3829
2024–25775432

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

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