Arthroscopy waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Bathurst area of New South Wales was 205 days in 2024–25.

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: 205 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 131 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 247 days in 2016–17 to 205 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 46 km away, at 171 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Bathurst Base Hospital	205 days	not published	36 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	134 days	10.8%	2880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 46 km away171 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 53 km away60 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 113 km away149 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 118 km away246 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 123 km away299 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 131 km away360 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 133 km away265 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 136 km away255 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 Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bathurst Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	247	140	68
2017–18	258	121	72
2018–19	236	126	75
2019–20	187	113	76
2020–21	111	183	89
2021–22	323	156	85
2022–23	174	131	86
2023–24	84	105	78
2024–25	205	134	78

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

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