Arthroscopy waiting time at Maitland Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Telarah area of New South Wales was 305 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: 305 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 74 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 40.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 146 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 108 days in 2016–17 to 305 days in 2024–25 — up 182% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Belmont Hospital, about 34 km away, at 238 days. Here, 40.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Maitland Hospital	305 days	40.5%	74 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.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 26 km away311 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 34 km away238 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 60 km away130 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 79 km away110 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 116 km away69 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 117 km away302 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 119 km away246 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 125 km away120 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	Maitland Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	108	140	68
2017–18	100	121	72
2018–19	190	126	75
2019–20	289	113	76
2020–21	224	183	89
2021–22	227	156	85
2022–23	66	131	86
2023–24	151	105	78
2024–25	305	134	78

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

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