Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Windsor area of New South Wales was 53 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
53 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 46 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 17 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 36 days in 2016–17 to 53 days in 2024–25 — up 47% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 26 km away, at 28 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pilonidal sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hawkesbury Hospital53 daysnot published23 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)86 days4.9%515 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)65 days3.4%1265 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 65 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 pilonidal sinus surgery by financial year at Hawkesbury Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hawkesbury Hospital 53NSW 86Australia 65
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHawkesbury Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17366855
2017–18516861
2018–19246863
2019–20467767
2020–21448483
2021–22309893
2022–23359094
2023–24508170
2024–25538665

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

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