Spinal bone removal (laminectomy) waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital waited 52 days or less for spinal bone removal (laminectomy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Laminectomy". This public hospital is in the Camperdown 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
- 52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 59 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 29 days in 2016–17 to 52 days in 2024–25 — up 79% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 66 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 20 km away, at 46 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.4%.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Laminectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Prince Alfred Hospital | 52 days | 0.0% | 59 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 87 days | 14.0% | 609 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 66 days | 7.4% | 1772 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 66 days marks the national median.
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 4 km away: 192 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 81 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 10 km away: 141 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 82 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 46 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 86 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 46 km away: 123 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 66 km away: 80 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 29 | 69 | 57 |
| 2017–18 | 14 | 74 | 68 |
| 2018–19 | 22 | 82 | 73 |
| 2019–20 | 10 | 75 | 69 |
| 2020–21 | 13 | 77 | 70 |
| 2021–22 | 35 | 70 | 70 |
| 2022–23 | 23 | 92 | 92 |
| 2023–24 | 23 | 70 | 68 |
| 2024–25 | 52 | 87 | 66 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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