Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital
Half of patients at Bathurst Base Hospital waited 205 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 Bathurst area of New South Wales.
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.
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
| 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 Service, NSW · about 46 km away: 171 days
Lithgow Hospital, NSW · about 53 km away: 60 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 113 km away: 149 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 118 km away: 246 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 123 km away: 299 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 131 km away: 360 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 133 km away: 265 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 136 km away: 255 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bathurst Base Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| 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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