Orchidopexy waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for orchidopexy at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 78 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: 78 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 230 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 81 days in 2016–17 to 78 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median rose from 62 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 18 km away, at 36 days. Here, 1.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 4.1%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Orchidopexy" 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 Orchidopexy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	78 days	1.7%	230 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.

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away123 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 18 km away36 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 20 km away7 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 23 km away81 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 23 km away7 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 26 km away79 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 26 km away33 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 35 km away90 days

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

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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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	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	81	73	62
2017–18	54	66	61
2018–19	63	64	62
2019–20	78	82	76
2020–21	89	81	86
2021–22	123	89	91
2022–23	106	106	114
2023–24	83	75	84
2024–25	78	76	78

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

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