Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Northern Beaches Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as “Haemorrhoidectomy” — at this public hospital in the Frenchs Forest area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 47 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 24 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 20 days in 2018–19 to 47 days in 2024–25 — up 135% — while the national median rose from 49 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Canterbury Hospital, about 23 km away, at 39 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Northern Beaches Hospital	47 days	not published	24 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	81 days	3.1%	1446 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 12 km away83 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away47 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 14 km away64 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away90 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 19 km away272 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 22 km away53 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 23 km away39 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 26 km away144 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Northern Beaches Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	70	57
2012–13	not reported for this period	67	59
2013–14	not reported for this period	64	59
2014–15	not reported for this period	67	56
2015–16	not reported for this period	63	54
2016–17	not reported for this period	63	49
2017–18	not reported for this period	64	47
2018–19	20	70	49
2019–20	36	72	57
2020–21	53	78	70
2021–22	60	71	77
2022–23	57	92	90
2023–24	73	78	67
2024–25	47	81	63

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

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