Surgery Waits

Orchidopexy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for orchidopexy at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 123 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
123 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 35 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 32 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2017–18 to 123 days in 2024–25 — up 1130% — while the national median rose from 61 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Beaches Hospital, about 12 km away, at 7 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Orchidopexy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital123 daysnot published10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)76 days4.9%597 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days4.1%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for orchidopexy by financial year at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 123NSW 76Australia 78
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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 periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published7362
2017–18106661
2018–19not published6462
2019–20not published8276
2020–21368186
2021–22438991
2022–2375106114
2023–24967584
2024–251237678

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

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