Surgery Waits

Cystectomy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for cystectomy at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 48 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
48 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 18 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2016–17 to 48 days in 2024–25 — up 60% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 29 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 38 km away, at 21 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cystectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital48 daysnot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)40 days1.0%194 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)29 days1.5%517 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 29 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 cystectomy by financial year at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 48NSW 40Australia 29
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cystectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17303227
2017–18313429
2018–19483729
2019–20not published3527
2020–21not published3829
2021–22not published3128
2022–23not published6032
2023–24not published5230
2024–25484029

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

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