Surgery Waits

Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Goulburn Base Hospital

The median wait for shoulder joint replacement at this public hospital in the Goulburn area of New South Wales was 232 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
232 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 300 days in 2020–21 to 232 days in 2024–25 — down 23% — while the national median fell from 246 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is North Canberra Hospital, about 80 km away, at 182 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Shoulder joint replacement" 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Shoulder joint replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Goulburn Base Hospital232 daysnot published18 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published53 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)325 days30.9%912 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)174 days20.4%2417 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.

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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for shoulder joint replacement by financial year at Goulburn Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Goulburn Base Hospital 232NSW 325Australia 174
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Shoulder joint replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGoulburn Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published271147
2017–18not published254152
2018–19not published270163
2019–20not published279154
2020–21300346246
2021–22299335218
2022–23264346254
2023–24266311192
2024–25232325174

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

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