Arthroscopy waiting time at Fairfield Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Prairiewood area of New South Wales was 265 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: 265 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 140 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 190 days in 2016–17 to 265 days in 2024–25 — up 39% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 10 km away, at 235 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
Fairfield Hospital	265 days	not published	34 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.

Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 9 km away360 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 10 km away235 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 10 km away115 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 13 km away299 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 13 km away234 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away83 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 19 km away236 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 19 km away179 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	Fairfield Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	190	140	68
2017–18	197	121	72
2018–19	220	126	75
2019–20	151	113	76
2020–21	291	183	89
2021–22	347	156	85
2022–23	314	131	86
2023–24	166	105	78
2024–25	265	134	78

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

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