Sydney Children's Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Sydney Children's Hospital is a public hospital in New South Wales. It reported 9 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 7 days | 95 surgeries | 1.1% |
| Cystoscopy | 28 days | 146 surgeries | 1.4% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 43 days | 10 surgeries | not published |
| Myringotomy | 137 days | 89 surgeries | 14.6% |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 239 days | 310 surgeries | 25.8% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | not published | not published | not published |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | not published | 5 surgeries | not published |
| Septoplasty | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Total hip replacement | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 6 days | 100% | 873 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 42 days | 80% | 1186 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 268 days | 75% | 1155 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.