Surgery Waits

Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]

Half of patients at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] waited 55 days or less for keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy". This public hospital is in the Wodonga area of Victoria.

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
55 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 27 days in 2016–17 to 55 days in 2024–25 — up 104% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Northeast Health Wangaratta, about 56 km away, at 49 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Arthroscopy" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]55 daysnot published26 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)48 days4.2%1804 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8779 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 55VIC 48Australia 78
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17274168
2017–18284872
2018–19324575
2019–20455176
2020–21206489
2021–22546485
2022–231047486
2023–24356378
2024–25554878

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

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