Surgery Waits

Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 104 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
104 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
13 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 52 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 fallen from 140 days in 2018–19 to 104 days in 2024–25 — down 26% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 12 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
St George Hospital NSW104 daysnot published13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)170 days14.7%407 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)95 days9.8%1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 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 hydrocele - repair of by financial year at St George Hospital NSW, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0631251882502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25St George Hospital NSW 104NSW 170Australia 95
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSt George Hospital NSW (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published9175
2017–18not published7770
2018–1914010570
2019–20469087
2020–21116169113
2021–22not published216121
2022–23150181138
2023–2421013090
2024–2510417095

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

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