Surgery Waits

Ureteric stent - insertion of waiting time at Northern Beaches Hospital

The median wait for ureteric stent - insertion of at this public hospital in the Frenchs Forest area of New South Wales was 24 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
24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 39 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 13 days in 2018–19 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 85% — while the national median rose from 22 days to 24 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 16 km away, at 21 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Ureteric stent - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Northern Beaches Hospital24 daysnot published28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)28 days0.5%1611 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)24 days0.6%2982 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 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 ureteric stent - insertion of by financial year at Northern Beaches Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Northern Beaches Hospital 24NSW 28Australia 24
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Ureteric stent - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNorthern Beaches Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period1517
2017–18not reported for this period2121
2018–19132722
2019–20142421
2020–21222722
2021–22232221
2022–23522724
2023–24272826
2024–25242824

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

All surgery at Northern Beaches Hospital · Ureteric stent - insertion of across Australia · Ureteric stent - insertion of in New South Wales