Surgery Waits

Cone biopsy waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

The median wait for cone biopsy at this public hospital in the St Leonards area of New South Wales was 26 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
26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 12 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 26 days in 2024–25 — down 7% — while the national median fell from 27 days to 23 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 19 km away, at 18 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cone biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cone biopsy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal North Shore Hospital26 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)not publishednot published98 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)24 days0.0%157 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)21 days0.0%110 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)23 days0.0%451 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 23 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cone biopsy by financial year at Royal North Shore Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal North Shore Hospital 26NSW 27Australia 23
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Cone biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal North Shore Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17282927
2017–18213128
2018–19not reported for this periodnot reported for this period24
2019–20not reported for this periodnot reported for this period22
2020–21not reported for this periodnot reported for this period23
2021–2219not published22
2022–23192521
2023–24422724
2024–2526not published23

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

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