Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Orange Health Service
Half of patients at Orange Health Service waited 171 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 Spring Creek 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
- 171 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 67 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 10.4%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 123 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 265 days in 2016–17 to 171 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lithgow Hospital, about 98 km away, at 60 days. Here, 10.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Health Service | 171 days | 10.4% | 67 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.
Bathurst Base Hospital, NSW · about 46 km away: 205 days
Lithgow Hospital, NSW · about 98 km away: 60 days
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 128 km away: 236 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 158 km away: 149 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 163 km away: 246 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 168 km away: 299 days
Goulburn Base Hospital, NSW · about 169 km away: 79 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 177 km away: 360 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Orange Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Orange Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 265 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 165 | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 119 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 96 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 150 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 232 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 170 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 148 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 171 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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