Ganglion cyst removal waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
Half of patients at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital waited 218 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 Waitara 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
- 218 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 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 104 days in 2016–17 to 218 days in 2024–25 — up 110% — while the national median rose from 69 days to 105 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 15 km away, at 169 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital | 218 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.
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 169 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 149 days
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 228 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 21 km away: 371 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 338 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 87 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 38 km away: 336 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 90 km away: 350 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 104 | 112 | 69 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 108 | 75 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 125 | 80 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 160 | 91 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 239 | 145 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 224 | 136 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 177 | 136 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 145 | 107 |
| 2024–25 | 218 | 250 | 105 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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