Adenoidectomy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for adenoidectomy at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 313 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: 313 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 46 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 70 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 178 days in 2016–17 to 313 days in 2024–25 — up 76% — while the national median rose from 84 days to 144 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Beaches Hospital, about 12 km away, at 305 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Adenoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital	313 days	not published	46 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	274 days	18.3%	1412 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	144 days	15.5%	3784 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 144 days marks the national median.

Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 12 km away305 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 15 km away332 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 16 km away252 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 19 km away307 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 22 km away56 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 24 km away344 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 27 km away301 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 27 km away332 days

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

How the wait has changed

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Adenoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	178	224	84
2017–18	256	235	95
2018–19	318	267	97
2019–20	274	273	97
2020–21	345	314	207
2021–22	287	245	111
2022–23	329	269	128
2023–24	277	293	148
2024–25	313	274	144

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

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