Urine passage widening waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital
Half of patients at Prince of Wales Hospital waited 27 days or less for urine passage widening in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Urethra - dilatation of". 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
- 27 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 81 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 31 days in 2016–17 to 27 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median fell from 29 days to 27 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.0%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince of Wales Hospital | 27 days | 0.0% | 81 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 0.8% | 358 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 27 days | 1.0% | 599 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 27 days marks the national median.
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 37 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 44 km away: 28 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 52 km away: 31 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 65 km away: 55 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 | 31 | 36 | 29 |
| 2017–18 | 35 | 30 | 28 |
| 2018–19 | 28 | 29 | 32 |
| 2019–20 | 25 | 30 | 32 |
| 2020–21 | 23 | 25 | 29 |
| 2021–22 | 27 | 27 | 27 |
| 2022–23 | 27 | 27 | 31 |
| 2023–24 | 28 | 28 | 26 |
| 2024–25 | 27 | 30 | 27 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital · Urine passage widening across Australia · Urine passage widening in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales