Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital
Half of patients at Prince of Wales Hospital waited 236 days or less for shoulder joint replacement in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Randwick area of New South Wales.
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
- 236 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 58 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 346 days in 2020–21 to 236 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median fell from 246 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, about 6 km away, at 24 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince of Wales Hospital | 236 days | not published | 12 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 325 days | 30.9% | 912 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 174 days | 20.4% | 2417 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, NSW · about 6 km away: 24 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 264 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 210 days
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 17 km away: 136 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 318 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 321 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 172 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 32 km away: 366 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Prince of Wales Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Prince of Wales Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 271 | 147 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 254 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 270 | 163 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 279 | 154 |
| 2020–21 | 346 | 346 | 246 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 335 | 218 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 346 | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 296 | 311 | 192 |
| 2024–25 | 236 | 325 | 174 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital · Shoulder joint replacement across Australia · Shoulder joint replacement in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales