Pilonidal sinus surgery waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pilonidal sinus surgery at this public hospital, 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: 28 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pilonidal sinus surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	28 days	not published	10 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	86 days	4.9%	515 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	65 days	3.4%	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.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 8 km away121 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 10 km away276 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away81 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away213 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 15 km away311 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away86 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away88 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 23 km away84 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
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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 period	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	68	55
2017–18	not published	68	61
2018–19	not published	68	63
2019–20	not published	77	67
2020–21	not published	84	83
2021–22	not published	98	93
2022–23	not published	90	94
2023–24	not published	81	70
2024–25	28	86	65

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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