Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Cooma Hospital and Health Service
Half of patients at Cooma Hospital and Health Service waited 54 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 Polo Flat 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
- 54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 34 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 35 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 79 days in 2016–17 to 54 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Queanbeyan Hospital, about 100 km away, at 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooma Hospital and Health Service | 54 days | not published | 34 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 134 days | 10.8% | 2880 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 48 days | 4.2% | 1804 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.
South East Regional Hospital, NSW · about 82 km away: 202 days
Moruya Hospital, NSW · about 92 km away: 73 days
Queanbeyan Hospital, NSW · about 100 km away: 31 days
Goulburn Base Hospital, NSW · about 174 km away: 79 days
Shoalhaven Hospital, NSW · about 202 km away: 108 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 202 km away: 55 days
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 203 km away: 337 days
Bowral Hospital, NSW · about 228 km away: 52 days
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
- Cooma Hospital and Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cooma Hospital and Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 79 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 199 | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 199 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 42 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 186 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 187 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 53 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 32 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 54 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Cooma Hospital and Health Service · Keyhole joint surgery across Australia · Keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales