Hydrocele surgery waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Half of patients at The Children's Hospital at Westmead waited 84 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 Westmead 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
- 30 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 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 151 days in 2016–17 to 84 days in 2024–25 — down 44% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 95 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 20 km away, at 12 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital at Westmead | 84 days | not published | 30 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.
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 92 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 14 km away: 274 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 227 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 99 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 113 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 12 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 23 km away: 104 days
Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 120 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 151 | 91 | 75 |
| 2017–18 | 63 | 77 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 82 | 105 | 70 |
| 2019–20 | 132 | 90 | 87 |
| 2020–21 | 135 | 169 | 113 |
| 2021–22 | 391 | 216 | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 129 | 181 | 138 |
| 2023–24 | 81 | 130 | 90 |
| 2024–25 | 84 | 170 | 95 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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