Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Canterbury Hospital
Half of patients at Canterbury Hospital waited 179 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 Campsie 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
- 179 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 58 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%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 125 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 220 days in 2016–17 to 179 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, about 8 km away, at 76 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury Hospital | 179 days | 0.0% | 58 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.
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 6 km away: 279 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 234 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, NSW · about 8 km away: 76 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 83 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 12 km away: 45 days
Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 188 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 66 days
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 83 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Canterbury Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Canterbury Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 220 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 217 | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 217 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 149 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 259 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 385 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 142 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 110 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 179 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Canterbury Hospital · Keyhole joint surgery across Australia · Keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales