Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Gosford Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Gosford area of New South Wales was 90 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: 90 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 46 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 99 days in 2016–17 to 90 days in 2024–25 — down 9% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wyong Hospital, about 22 km away, at 87 days.

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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
Gosford Hospital	90 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	86 days	4.9%	515 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	65 days	3.4%	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.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away87 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away86 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away19 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 52 km away1 day
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 53 km away53 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 53 km away28 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 56 km away108 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 57 km away121 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 Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	99	68	55
2017–18	74	68	61
2018–19	97	68	63
2019–20	60	77	67
2020–21	137	84	83
2021–22	not published	98	93
2022–23	102	90	94
2023–24	100	81	70
2024–25	90	86	65

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

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