Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
Half of patients at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital waited 172 days or less for shoulder joint replacement in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). This public hospital is in the Waitara 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
- 172 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 13 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 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 63 days in 2016–17 to 172 days in 2024–25 — up 173% — while the national median rose from 147 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, about 22 km away, at 24 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital | 172 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 325 days | 30.9% | 912 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 174 days | 20.4% | 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.
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 318 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 210 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 321 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, NSW · about 22 km away: 24 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 24 km away: 264 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 26 km away: 366 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 236 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 27 km away: 328 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 63 | 271 | 147 |
| 2017–18 | 14 | 254 | 152 |
| 2018–19 | 42 | 270 | 163 |
| 2019–20 | 24 | 279 | 154 |
| 2020–21 | 14 | 346 | 246 |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 335 | 218 |
| 2022–23 | 69 | 346 | 254 |
| 2023–24 | 79 | 311 | 192 |
| 2024–25 | 172 | 325 | 174 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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