Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Moruya Hospital
Half of patients at Moruya Hospital waited 73 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 Moruya 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
- 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
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moruya Hospital | 73 days | not published | 11 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.
South East Regional Hospital, NSW · about 89 km away: 202 days
Cooma Hospital and Health Service, NSW · about 92 km away: 54 days
Queanbeyan Hospital, NSW · about 98 km away: 31 days
Shoalhaven Hospital, NSW · about 125 km away: 108 days
Goulburn Base Hospital, NSW · about 133 km away: 79 days
Bowral Hospital, NSW · about 161 km away: 52 days
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 165 km away: 315 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 180 km away: 89 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Moruya Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Moruya Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 72 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 85 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 46 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 70 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 73 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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