Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Queanbeyan Hospital
Half of patients at Queanbeyan Hospital waited 31 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 Queanbeyan 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
- 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 53 days in 2016–17 to 31 days in 2024–25 — down 42% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queanbeyan Hospital | 31 days | 0.0% | 57 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.
Goulburn Base Hospital, NSW · about 80 km away: 79 days
Moruya Hospital, NSW · about 98 km away: 73 days
Cooma Hospital and Health Service, NSW · about 100 km away: 54 days
Shoalhaven Hospital, NSW · about 135 km away: 108 days
Bowral Hospital, NSW · about 145 km away: 52 days
South East Regional Hospital, NSW · about 159 km away: 202 days
Shellharbour Hospital, NSW · about 171 km away: 315 days
Wagga Wagga Hospital, NSW · about 172 km away: 337 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Queanbeyan Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Queanbeyan Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 53 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | 50 | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 35 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 47 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 25 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 28 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 35 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 28 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 31 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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