Ganglion cyst removal waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital
Half of patients at Bathurst Base Hospital waited 340 days or less for ganglion cyst removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Ganglion - excision of". This public hospital is in the Bathurst area of New South Wales.
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
- 340 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 42 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 39 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 330 days in 2017–18 to 340 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 105 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 113 km away, at 336 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bathurst Base Hospital | 340 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 250 days | 17.8% | 377 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 105 days | 10.3% | 1191 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 105 days marks the national median.
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 113 km away: 336 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 133 km away: 338 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 144 km away: 228 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 146 km away: 87 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 146 km away: 218 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 149 km away: 149 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 157 km away: 169 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 160 km away: 371 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bathurst Base Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bathurst Base Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 112 | 69 |
| 2017–18 | 330 | 108 | 75 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 125 | 80 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 160 | 91 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 239 | 145 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | 224 | 136 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 177 | 136 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 145 | 107 |
| 2024–25 | 340 | 250 | 105 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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