Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Lithgow Hospital
Half of patients at Lithgow Hospital waited 60 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 South Littleton 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
- 60 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 29 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 90 days in 2016–17 to 60 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithgow Hospital | 60 days | not published | 29 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.
Bathurst Base Hospital, NSW · about 53 km away: 205 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 61 km away: 149 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 65 km away: 246 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 71 km away: 299 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 79 km away: 360 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 82 km away: 265 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 87 km away: 235 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 87 km away: 115 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Lithgow Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Lithgow Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 90 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 79 | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 84 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 84 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 342 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 170 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 81 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 70 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 60 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Lithgow Hospital · Keyhole joint surgery across Australia · Keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales