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
Royal Hospital for Women is a public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales. It is part of 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.
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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.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy | 18 days | 76 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Mastectomy | 22 days | 33 surgeries | not published |
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 24 days | 246 surgeries | 1.6% |
| Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix (LLETZ) | 30 days | 171 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy | 47 days | 75 surgeries | 9.3% |
| Hysteroscopy, dilatation and curettage | 51 days | 692 surgeries | 1.3% |
| Endometrial ablation | 61 days | 57 surgeries | 3.5% |
| Curettage and evacuation of uterus | 69 days | 81 surgeries | 1.2% |
| Myomectomy | 84 days | 23 surgeries | not published |
| Cystoscopy | 91 days | 31 surgeries | not published |
| Bartholin's abscess drainage | 102 days | 15 surgeries | not published |
| Laparoscopy | 150 days | 36 surgeries | not published |
| Breast reconstruction | 233 days | 22 surgeries | not published |
| Vaginal repair - anterior/posterior | 283 days | 16 surgeries | not published |
| Axillary node dissection | not published | not published | not published |
| Breast prosthesis - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Breast reduction | not published | not published | not published |
| Cone biopsy | not published | not published | not published |
| Cystectomy | not published | 7 surgeries | not published |
| Female sterilisation | not published | not published | not published |
| Herniorrhaphy | not published | not published | not published |
| Scar revision | not published | not published | not published |
| Diathermy of wart/s last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Septoplasty last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Skin lesion - excision of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Stress incontinence surgery last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Ureteric stent - insertion of last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
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.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 11 days | 100% | 563 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 47 days | 92% | 935 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 86 days | 96% | 929 surgeries |
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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.
Copy-ready citation
SurgeryWaits, "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.Attribution: SurgeryWaits (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.