Orchidectomy waiting time at Wollongong Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Orchidectomy 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: 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 20 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 Orchidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wollongong Hospital	18 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	14 days	1.2%	171 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	10 days	0.0%	206 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	11 days	0.8%	718 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 11 days marks the national median.

Nepean HospitalNSW · about 76 km away6 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 171 km away17 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 410 km away4 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 638 km away14 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 639 km away10 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 640 km away7 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 642 km away7 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 651 km away18 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Orchidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Wollongong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	13	9
2017–18	4	12	10
2018–19	6	12	11
2019–20	9	10	9
2020–21	not published	14	11
2021–22	not published	13	11
2022–23	16	15	11
2023–24	not published	13	10
2024–25	18	14	11

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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