Nose and throat scope waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
Half of patients at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital waited 261 days or less for nose and throat scope in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Nasendoscopy". 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
- 261 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 115 days in 2016–17 to 261 days in 2024–25 — up 127% — while the national median rose from 0 days to 277 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sydney Children's Hospital, about 27 km away, at 13 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nasendoscopy" 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital | 261 days | not published | 19 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 343 days | 25.5% | 314 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 277 days | 18.7% | 492 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 277 days marks the national median.
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 338 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 16 km away: 357 days
Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 13 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 83 km away: 162 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 102 km away: 192 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 116 km away: 352 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 | 115 | 110 | 0 |
| 2017–18 | 83 | 111 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 110 | 105 | 95 |
| 2019–20 | 180 | 147 | 80 |
| 2020–21 | 228 | 112 | 50 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 119 | 63 |
| 2022–23 | 147 | 153 | 116 |
| 2023–24 | 208 | 306 | 182 |
| 2024–25 | 261 | 343 | 277 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital · Nose and throat scope across Australia · Nose and throat scope in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales