Surgery Waits

Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

The median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital in the Turvey Park area of New South Wales was 18 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
18 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 194 days in 2020–21 to 18 days in 2024–25 — down 91% — while the national median fell from 83 days to 65 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pilonidal sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital18 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)86 days4.9%515 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)43 days2.5%445 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)65 days3.4%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pilonidal sinus surgery by financial year at Wagga Wagga Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Wagga Wagga Hospital 18NSW 86Australia 65
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pilonidal sinus surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodWagga Wagga Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published6855
2017–18not published6861
2018–19not published6863
2019–20not published7767
2020–211948483
2021–22not published9893
2022–23not published9094
2023–24not published8170
2024–25188665

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

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