Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

Median wait, long waits and volumes for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as “Haemorrhoidectomy” — at this public hospital in the Kogarah 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: 144 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 97 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 180 days in 2011–12 to 144 days in 2024–25 — down 20% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Canterbury Hospital, about 6 km away, at 39 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Haemorrhoidectomy” 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 Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
St George Hospital NSW	144 days	not published	21 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.

Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 6 km away39 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 11 km away110 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 11 km away272 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 13 km away64 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 15 km away90 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 15 km away53 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 19 km away118 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 19 km away47 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	St George Hospital NSW (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	180	70	57
2012–13	132	67	59
2013–14	62	64	59
2014–15	101	67	56
2015–16	117	63	54
2016–17	169	63	49
2017–18	88	64	47
2018–19	94	70	49
2019–20	143	72	57
2020–21	150	78	70
2021–22	37	71	77
2022–23	139	92	90
2023–24	49	78	67
2024–25	144	81	63

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

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