Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 272 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

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

Median wait: 272 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 22 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 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 104 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 90 days in 2011–12 to 272 days in 2024–25 — up 202% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 5 km away, at 64 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Prince of Wales Hospital	272 days	not published	22 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	81 days	3.1%	1446 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 5 km away64 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away144 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away39 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away90 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away47 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 19 km away47 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 20 km away53 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 km away110 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Prince of Wales Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	90	70	57
2012–13	41	67	59
2013–14	78	64	59
2014–15	89	67	56
2015–16	353	63	54
2016–17	316	63	49
2017–18	236	64	47
2018–19	245	70	49
2019–20	142	72	57
2020–21	194	78	70
2021–22	322	71	77
2022–23	372	92	90
2023–24	290	78	67
2024–25	272	81	63

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

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