Surgery Waits

Pterygium - excision of waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

The median wait for pterygium - excision of at this public hospital in the Camperdown area of New South Wales was 44 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

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.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pterygium - excision of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital44 daysnot published14 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)346 days32.1%735 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)197 days15.7%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pterygium - excision of by financial year at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 44NSW 346Australia 197
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Pterygium - excision of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodRoyal Prince Alfred Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published260128
2017–18not published277152
2018–19not published275125
2019–20not published315155
2020–21not published331230
2021–22not published306238
2022–23not published329241
2023–24not published317191
2024–2544346197

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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