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title: "Royal Hospital for Women surgery waiting times"
description: "Planned surgery waiting times and waiting list at Royal Hospital for Women, a public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales, for 2024–25."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/"
---

# Royal Hospital for Women surgery waiting times

In 2024–25, this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales published median waits from **18 days** for breast lump removal to **283 days** for prolapse repair.

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

Royal Hospital for Women is a public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales. It is part of [South Eastern Sydney](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/south-eastern-sydney/). It reported 22 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 5 surgery types were last reported in an earlier period; they are listed below, with the period the source last carried them.

**[Compare this near you →](https://surgerywaits.au/)** On the compare page, pick a surgery and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

## Waiting times by surgery

Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed after those, and a surgery it did not report at all this period is listed last. Neither is ranked, and neither shows an older figure in place of a current one.

Planned surgery at Royal Hospital for Women, 2024–25. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/breast-lump-removal/) | 18 days | 76 surgeries | 0.0% |
| [Mastectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/mastectomy/) | 22 days | 33 surgeries | not published |
| [Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/hysterectomy/) | 24 days | 246 surgeries | 1.6% |
| [Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ)](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/lletz-procedure/) | 30 days | 171 surgeries | 0.0% |
| [Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/salpingo-oophorectomy-oophorectomy-ovarian-cystectomy/) | 47 days | 75 surgeries | 9.3% |
| [Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/dilatation-and-curettage/) | 51 days | 692 surgeries | 1.3% |
| [Endometrial ablation](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/endometrial-ablation/) | 61 days | 57 surgeries | 3.5% |
| [Curettage and evacuation of uterus](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/curettage-and-evacuation-of-uterus/) | 69 days | 81 surgeries | 1.2% |
| [Myomectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/myomectomy/) | 84 days | 23 surgeries | not published |
| [Cystoscopy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/cystoscopy/) | 91 days | 31 surgeries | not published |
| [Bartholin's abscess drainage](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/bartholins-abscess-drainage/) | 102 days | 15 surgeries | not published |
| [Laparoscopy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/laparoscopy/) | 150 days | 36 surgeries | not published |
| [Breast reconstruction](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/breast-reconstruction/) | 233 days | 22 surgeries | not published |
| [Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/prolapse-repair/) | 283 days | 16 surgeries | not published |
| [Axillary node dissection](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/axillary-node-dissection/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Breast prosthesis - removal of](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/breast-prosthesis-removal-of/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Breast reduction](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/breast-reduction/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Cone biopsy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/cone-biopsy/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Cystectomy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/cystectomy/) | not published | 7 surgeries | not published |
| [Female sterilisation](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/female-sterilisation/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Herniorrhaphy](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/hernia-repair/) | not published | not published | not published |
| [Scar revision](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/scar-revision/) | not published | not published | not published |

**Not reported for this period**

| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diathermy of wart/s last reported 2023–24 | not reported |  |  |
| Septoplasty last reported 2016–17 | not reported |  |  |
| Skin lesion - excision of last reported 2023–24 | not reported |  |  |
| Stress incontinence surgery last reported 2023–24 | not reported |  |  |
| Ureteric stent - insertion of last reported 2022–23 | not reported |  |  |

## Urgency categories

Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose. [What the categories mean, and how every hospital compares.](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/)

All planned surgery at Royal Hospital for Women by urgency category, 2024–25.

| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-1/nsw/) | 11 days | 100% | 563 surgeries |
| [Semi-urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-2/nsw/) | 47 days | 92% | 935 surgeries |
| [Non-urgent](https://surgerywaits.au/urgency/category-3/nsw/) | 86 days | 96% | 929 surgeries |

**Cite this page**

> In 2024–25, Royal Hospital for Women published median planned-surgery waits from 18 days for breast lump removal to 283 days for prolapse repair (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Royal Hospital for Women wait times and waiting list", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-hospital-for-women/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

[How these figures are put together](https://surgerywaits.au/methodology/) · [All surgery waits in New South Wales](https://surgerywaits.au/state/nsw/) · [All hospitals](https://surgerywaits.au/hospitals/)

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

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Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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