Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics surgery waiting times
In 2024–25, this public hospital in the Camperdown area of New South Wales published median waits from 7 days for tendon release to 118 days for ACL reconstruction.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics is a public hospital in the Camperdown area of New South Wales. It is part of Sydney. It reported 20 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25. 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tendon release | 7 days | 10 surgeries | not published |
| Skin lesion - excision of | 15 days | 26 surgeries | not published |
| Shoulder joint replacement | 24 days | 16 surgeries | not published |
| Carpal tunnel release | 42 days | 29 surgeries | not published |
| Total hip replacement | 57 days | 131 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Arthroscopy | 76 days | 45 surgeries | not published |
| Total knee replacement | 91 days | 188 surgeries | 0.0% |
| Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | 118 days | 35 surgeries | not published |
| Arthrodesis | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Bunion (hallux valgus) - removal of | not published | not published | not published |
| Dupytren's contracture release | not published | 5 surgeries | not published |
| Fracture non-union - treatment of | not published | 9 surgeries | not published |
| Ganglion - excision of | not published | not published | not published |
| Hammer/claw/mallet toe - correction of | not published | not published | not published |
| Meniscectomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Nerve decompression | not published | not published | not published |
| Osteotomy | not published | not published | not published |
| Rotator cuff - repair of | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Scar revision | not published | not published | not published |
| Trigger finger/thumb release | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Acromioplasty/arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Amputation of limb last reported 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Arthroplasty - revision of last reported 2023–24 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Cervical discectomy and fusion last reported 2018–19 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Laminectomy last reported 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Muscle or tendon length - change of last reported 2022–23 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Shoulder reconstruction last reported 2021–22 | not reported for this period | not reported for this period | not reported for this period |
| Tenotomy of hip 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 | 5 days | 100% | 102 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 16 days | 100% | 111 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 57 days | 100% | 1505 surgeries |
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In 2024–25, Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics published median planned-surgery waits from 7 days for tendon release to 118 days for ACL reconstruction.
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Surgery Waits, "Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology &…", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-prince-alfred-institute-of-rheumatology-orthopaedics/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-prince-alfred-institute-of-rheumatology-orthopaedics/), 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
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