Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Manning Hospital
Half of patients at Manning Hospital waited 120 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 Taree South 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
- 120 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 68 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 14.7%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 110 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 139 days in 2016–17 to 120 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wauchope District Memorial Hospital, about 57 km away, at 113 days. Here, 14.7% 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manning Hospital | 120 days | 14.7% | 68 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.
Wauchope District Memorial Hospital, NSW · about 57 km away: 113 days
Port Macquarie Base Hospital, NSW · about 65 km away: 302 days
Kempsey District Hospital, NSW · about 100 km away: 147 days
Maitland Hospital, NSW · about 125 km away: 305 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 133 km away: 311 days
Belmont Hospital, NSW · about 145 km away: 238 days
Tamworth Hospital, NSW · about 172 km away: 194 days
Armidale Hospital, NSW · about 173 km away: 65 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Manning Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Manning Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 139 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 239 | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 67 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 98 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 152 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 91 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 76 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 81 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 120 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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