Meniscectomy waiting time at Fairfield Hospital
The median wait for meniscectomy at this public hospital in the Prairiewood area of New South Wales was 272 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 272 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 25 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 262 days in 2019–20 to 272 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median fell from 62 days to 57 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, about 26 km away, at 36 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield Hospital | 272 days | not published | 25 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 142 days | 7.9% | 164 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 57 days | 3.6% | 561 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Fairfield Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Fairfield Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 92 | 50 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 91 | 56 |
| 2018–19 | not published | 99 | 51 |
| 2019–20 | 262 | 98 | 62 |
| 2020–21 | 384 | 184 | 109 |
| 2021–22 | 179 | 188 | 89 |
| 2022–23 | 285 | 230 | 97 |
| 2023–24 | 212 | 150 | 69 |
| 2024–25 | 272 | 142 | 57 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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