Pterygium (eye growth) removal waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital waited 44 days or less for pterygium (eye growth) removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pterygium - excision of". 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
- 44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 65 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Pterygium - excision of" 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 | 44 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 346 days | 32.1% | 735 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 197 days | 15.7% | 2442 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 197 days marks the national median.
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital, NSW · about 4 km away: 365 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 8 km away: 373 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 323 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 396 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 443 days
Wyong Hospital, NSW · about 75 km away: 320 days
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 81 km away: 360 days
Blue Mountains Hospital, NSW · about 82 km away: 290 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 | not published | 260 | 128 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 277 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 275 | 125 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 315 | 155 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 331 | 230 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 306 | 238 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 329 | 241 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 317 | 191 |
| 2024–25 | 44 | 346 | 197 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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