Surgery Waits

Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Campbelltown Hospital

Half of patients at Campbelltown Hospital waited 255 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 Campbelltown 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
255 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
120 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
11.7%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 150 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 139 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 168 days in 2016–17 to 255 days in 2024–25 — up 52% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, about 25 km away, at 234 days. Here, 11.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

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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
Campbelltown Hospital255 days11.7%120 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Campbelltown Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Campbelltown Hospital 255NSW 134Australia 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 periodCampbelltown Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1716814068
2017–188812172
2018–1918912675
2019–2019311376
2020–2128718389
2021–2230315685
2022–2323213186
2023–2421910578
2024–2525513478

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

All surgery at Campbelltown Hospital · Keyhole joint surgery across Australia · Keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales