Lithotripsy waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Lithotripsy at this public hospital, 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: 44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 27 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 49 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Lithotripsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Prince of Wales Hospital	44 days	not published	27 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.7%	1134 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	28 days	0.8%	2881 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 28 days marks the national median.

St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away26 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away34 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 16 km away52 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 17 km away26 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 20 km away85 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 52 km away48 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 52 km away50 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 65 km away26 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 Lithotripsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Prince of Wales Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	34
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	29
2018–19	51	36	36
2019–20	35	27	28
2020–21	15	31	34
2021–22	7	27	33
2022–23	73	28	30
2023–24	38	28	28
2024–25	44	28	28

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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