Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Darlinghurst area of New South Wales was 1 day 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
1 day2024–25 · 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 46 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 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 2022–23 to 1 day in 2024–25 — down 96% — while the national median fell from 94 days to 65 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]1 daynot published13 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 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 1NSW 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 periodSt Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6855
2017–18not published6861
2018–19not reported for this period6863
2019–20not published7767
2020–21not published8483
2021–22not published9893
2022–23289094
2023–2478170
2024–2518665

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

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