Surgery Waits

Stone/s urinary tract - removal of waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital

The median wait for stone/s urinary tract - removal of at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 27 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
27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
12 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 28 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 35 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median fell from 28 days to 25 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northern Beaches Hospital, about 19 km away, at 22 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Prince of Wales Hospital27 daysnot published12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)71 days4.1%878 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)25 days1.5%3653 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 25 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 stone/s urinary tract - removal of by financial year at Prince of Wales Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Prince of Wales Hospital 27NSW 71Australia 25
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Stone/s urinary tract - removal of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodPrince of Wales Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17354128
2017–18484129
2018–19364726
2019–20424428
2020–21374529
2021–22244521
2022–23223823
2023–24354824
2024–25277125

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

All surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital · Stone/s urinary tract - removal of across Australia · Stone/s urinary tract - removal of in New South Wales