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Kidney drainage blockage repair at Sydney Children's Hospital

Sydney Children's Hospital is a public hospital in the Randwick area, New South Wales. This page shows its waiting times for Kidney drainage blockage repair in 2024–25, beside the figures for New South Wales and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Pyeloplasty/correction of ureteropelvic junction".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Kidney drainage blockage repair at Sydney Children's Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Sydney Children's Hospital
21 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank1st of 22 nationally

Change on the year before+2 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Sydney Children's Hospital
not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Patients treated, Sydney Children's Hospital
13 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Kidney drainage blockage repair. They are never ranked.

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Kidney drainage blockage repair: Sydney Children's Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Sydney Children's Hospital21 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)63 days6.1%115 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)41 days4.7%598 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Sydney Children's Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. No hospital on that list published a shorter median wait for Kidney drainage blockage repair in 2024–25.

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Kidney drainage blockage repair at Sydney Children's Hospital has fallen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2016–17, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Kidney drainage blockage repair: median wait by financial year, Sydney Children's Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
0204060802016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25
  • Sydney Children's Hospital
  • New South Wales
  • Australia
  • No figure published for this year. The table gives the reason.
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Kidney drainage blockage repair: median wait by financial year, Sydney Children's Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearSydney Children's HospitalNew South WalesAustralia
2016–1728 days32 days33 days
2017–1822 days49 days42 days
2018–1921 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure38 days
2019–2037 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure41 days
2020–2128 days53 days41 days
2021–2217 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure32 days
2022–2315 days43 days39 days
2023–2419 days48 days35 days
2024–2521 days63 days41 days

All planned surgery at Sydney Children's Hospital

Kidney drainage blockage repair at every public hospital in Australia

Kidney drainage blockage repair in New South Wales

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/