Craniotomy waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for craniotomy at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 8 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: 8 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 37 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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 12 days in 2016–17 to 8 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median rose from 14 days to 20 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sydney Children's Hospital, about 26 km away, at 2 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Craniotomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	8 days	not published	37 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	15 days	1.0%	485 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.9%	1392 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 20 days marks the national median.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 0 km away12 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away10 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away18 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 18 km away126 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 20 km away16 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 23 km away16 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 23 km away20 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 26 km away2 days

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

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Craniotomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	12	13	14
2017–18	21	13	17
2018–19	20	14	19
2019–20	15	11	14
2020–21	21	13	15
2021–22	9	13	14
2022–23	7	13	18
2023–24	19	16	22
2024–25	8	15	20

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

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