Dermoid cyst - removal of waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead
The median wait for dermoid cyst - removal of at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 188 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
- 188 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 23 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 5 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 94 days in 2021–22 to 188 days in 2024–25 — up 100%. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 23 km away, at 13 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital at Westmead | 188 days | not published | 23 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 146 days | 13.1% | 130 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 71 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 86 days | 8.9% | 236 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 38 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 53 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | 55 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not published |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not published |
| 2021–22 | 94 | not published | not published |
| 2022–23 | 135 | 111 | 117 |
| 2023–24 | 133 | 116 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 188 | 146 | 86 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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