Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 81 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
81 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 100 days in 2016–17 to 81 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — 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 14 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
Liverpool Hospital81 daysnot published21 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 Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Liverpool Hospital 81NSW 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 periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–171006855
2017–18616861
2018–191006863
2019–201687767
2020–211118483
2021–222589893
2022–231209094
2023–24888170
2024–25818665

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

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