Hip replacement waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 144 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 136 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 15.4%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 60 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 89 days in 2011–12 to 144 days in 2024–25 — up 62% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], about 5 km away, at 62 days. Here, 15.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Prince of Wales Hospital	144 days	15.4%	136 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 5 km away62 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away26 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 6 km away57 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away215 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away165 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away97 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 17 km away181 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away285 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Prince of Wales Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	89	193	116
2012–13	186	196	116
2013–14	113	191	106
2014–15	118	206	109
2015–16	183	212	114
2016–17	147	217	110
2017–18	173	212	119
2018–19	232	220	119
2019–20	141	202	120
2020–21	250	271	179
2021–22	182	231	153
2022–23	114	244	175
2023–24	112	225	135
2024–25	144	265	130

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

All surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales