Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Moruya Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Moruya area of New South Wales was 73 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
73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
11 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 66 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 72 days in 2020–21 to 73 days in 2024–25 — up 1% — while the national median fell from 89 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cooma Hospital and Health Service, about 92 km away, at 54 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Moruya Hospital73 daysnot published11 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Moruya Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Moruya Hospital 73NSW 134Australia 78
  • Moruya Hospital
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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 periodMoruya Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period14068
2017–18not reported for this period12172
2018–19not reported for this period12675
2019–20not published11376
2020–217218389
2021–228515685
2022–234613186
2023–247010578
2024–257313478

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

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