Hydrocele surgery waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Sydney Children's Hospital waited 120 days or less for hydrocele surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Hydrocele - repair of". This public hospital is in the Randwick 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
- 120 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 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 59 days in 2016–17 to 120 days in 2024–25 — up 103% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Prince of Wales Hospital, about 0 km away, at 77 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney Children's Hospital | 120 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 170 days | 14.7% | 407 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 95 days | 9.8% | 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.
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 0 km away: 77 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 6 km away: 12 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 11 km away: 104 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 113 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 92 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 227 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 26 km away: 84 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 99 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Sydney Children's Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Sydney Children's Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 59 | 91 | 75 |
| 2017–18 | 34 | 77 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 85 | 105 | 70 |
| 2019–20 | 87 | 90 | 87 |
| 2020–21 | 138 | 169 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | 179 | 216 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 175 | 181 | 138 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 130 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 120 | 170 | 95 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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