Surgery Waits

Rotator cuff repair waiting time at Maitland Hospital

The median wait for rotator cuff repair — published by the source as "Rotator cuff - repair of" — at this public hospital in the Telarah area of New South Wales was 363 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
363 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
19 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 40 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 39 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 300 days in 2016–17 to 363 days in 2024–25 — up 21% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 111 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hawkesbury Hospital, about 119 km away, at 289 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Rotator cuff - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Maitland Hospital363 daysnot published19 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)247 days20.9%512 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)111 days12.9%1144 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 111 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for rotator cuff - repair of by financial year at Maitland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Maitland Hospital 363NSW 247Australia 111
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Rotator cuff - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodMaitland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17300239103
2017–18314234104
2018–19not published214127
2019–20not published202123
2020–21not published301203
2021–22not published307151
2022–23not published313193
2023–24not published281150
2024–25363247111

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

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