--- title: "Ganglion cyst removal near St Leonards" description: "Public hospitals in or near St Leonards ranked by median wait for ganglion cyst removal, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 169 days." url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/ganglion-excision-of/near/st-leonards/" --- # Ganglion cyst removal near St Leonards Near St Leonards, [Royal North Shore Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-north-shore-hospital/ganglion-excision-of/) had the shortest median wait for ganglion cyst removal in 2024–25: **169 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026. 3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for ganglion cyst removal, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. 2 hospitals have no current published median. They are listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". The source publishes this surgery as "Ganglion - excision of". ## Hospitals in or near St Leonards Ganglion - excision of at public hospitals in or near St Leonards, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28. | Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | [Royal North Shore Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-north-shore-hospital/ganglion-excision-of/) | 169 days | not published | St Leonards, NSW. In this area. | | 2 | [Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/hornsby-ku-ring-gai-hospital/ganglion-excision-of/) | 218 days | not published | Waitara, NSW. In this area. | | 3 | [Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/sydney-hospital-sydney-eye-hospital/ganglion-excision-of/) | 371 days | not published | Sydney, NSW. Outside this area, about 6 km from Royal North Shore Hospital. | | unranked | [Northern Beaches Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northern-beaches-hospital/ganglion-excision-of/) | not published | not published | Frenchs Forest, NSW. In this area. | | unranked | [Ryde Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/ryde-hospital/ganglion-excision-of/) | not published | not published | Denistone East, NSW. In this area. | This area covers Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Mona Vale Hospital, Northern Beaches Hospital, Royal North Shore Hospital and Ryde Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Northern Sydney". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that. **Cite this page** > Near St Leonards, Royal North Shore Hospital had the shortest median wait for ganglion cyst removal in 2024–25: 169 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). ### Copy-ready citation ``` Surgery Waits, "Ganglion cyst removal near St Leonards: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/ganglion-excision-of/near/st-leonards/, accessed 28 May 2026. ``` Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/ganglion-excision-of/near/st-leonards/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/ganglion-excision-of/near/st-leonards/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026. ## What is not here Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here. See [every New South Wales hospital for ganglion cyst removal](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/ganglion-excision-of/nsw/), or every hospital in [Northern Sydney](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/northern-sydney/). ## Before you use these figures Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you. **In an emergency call 000.** Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations. Surgery Waits is published by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). * * * This is the Markdown copy of https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/ganglion-excision-of/near/st-leonards/.