Surgery Waits

Laparoscopy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for laparoscopy at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 55 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
55 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
14 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 149 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 52 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 55 days in 2024–25 — up 96% — while the national median rose from 47 days to 69 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal North Shore Hospital, about 15 km away, at 49 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Laparoscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital55 daysnot published14 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)70 days6.0%2149 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)69 days5.4%9403 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 69 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for laparoscopy by financial year at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 55NSW 70Australia 69
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Laparoscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17285047
2017–18365451
2018–19505857
2019–20656664
2020–21717979
2021–22566978
2022–23697482
2023–24not published5969
2024–25557069

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

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