Surgery Waits

Pharyngoplasty waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for pharyngoplasty at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 137 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
137 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 1 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 182 days in 2016–17 to 137 days in 2024–25 — down 25%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pharyngoplasty, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead137 daysnot published11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)not publishednot published19 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published51 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pharyngoplasty by financial year at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Children's Hospital at Westmead 137
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pharyngoplasty, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17182not publishednot published
2017–1886not publishednot published
2018–19117not publishednot published
2019–20not publishednot publishednot published
2020–2143not publishednot published
2021–2271not publishednot published
2022–23130not publishednot published
2023–2437not publishednot published
2024–25137not publishednot published

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

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