Tailbone cyst surgery waiting time at St George Hospital NSW
Half of patients at St George Hospital NSW waited 84 days or less for tailbone cyst surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pilonidal sinus surgery". This public hospital is in the Kogarah 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
- 84 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 46 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 24 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 98 days in 2016–17 to 84 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median rose from 55 days to 65 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 13 km away, at 1 day.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pilonidal sinus surgery" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St George Hospital NSW | 84 days | not published | 10 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 86 days | 4.9% | 515 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 65 days | 3.4% | 1265 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 65 days marks the national median.
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 6 km away: 88 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 213 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 108 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 13 km away: 1 day
Auburn Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 121 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 81 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 23 km away: 28 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 276 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St George Hospital NSW
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St George Hospital NSW (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 98 | 68 | 55 |
| 2017–18 | 104 | 68 | 61 |
| 2018–19 | 83 | 68 | 63 |
| 2019–20 | 145 | 77 | 67 |
| 2020–21 | 119 | 84 | 83 |
| 2021–22 | 165 | 98 | 93 |
| 2022–23 | 282 | 90 | 94 |
| 2023–24 | 71 | 81 | 70 |
| 2024–25 | 84 | 86 | 65 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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