Surgery Waits

Ganglion - excision of waiting time at Royal North Shore Hospital

The median wait for ganglion - excision of at this public hospital in the St Leonards area of New South Wales was 169 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
169 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 42 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 31 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 83 days in 2016–17 to 169 days in 2024–25 — up 104% — while the national median rose from 69 days to 105 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 9 km away, at 149 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Ganglion - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal North Shore Hospital169 daysnot published19 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)250 days17.8%377 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)105 days10.3%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for ganglion - excision of by financial year at Royal North Shore Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal North Shore Hospital 169NSW 250Australia 105
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Ganglion - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal North Shore Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–178311269
2017–186010875
2018–199912580
2019–20not published16091
2020–21not published239145
2021–2263224136
2022–2373177136
2023–2471145107
2024–25169250105

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

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