Orchidopexy waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for orchidopexy at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 81 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: 81 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 35 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 85 days in 2016–17 to 81 days in 2024–25 — down 5% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 7 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Orchidopexy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
St George Hospital NSW	81 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	76 days	4.9%	597 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	4.1%	1790 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 10 km away7 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 11 km away79 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 17 km away36 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 23 km away78 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 26 km away7 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 30 km away123 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 33 km away90 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 45 km away33 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Orchidopexy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	St George Hospital NSW (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	85	73	62
2017–18	not published	66	61
2018–19	67	64	62
2019–20	83	82	76
2020–21	not published	81	86
2021–22	121	89	91
2022–23	91	106	114
2023–24	84	75	84
2024–25	81	76	78

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

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