Surgery Waits

Rotator cuff repair waiting time at Sutherland Hospital

The median wait for rotator cuff repair — published by the source as "Rotator cuff - repair of" — at this public hospital in the Caringbah area of New South Wales was 88 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
88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
24 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 40 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 103 days in 2016–17 to 88 days in 2024–25 — down 15% — while the national median rose from 103 days to 111 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Rotator cuff - repair of, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sutherland Hospital88 daysnot published24 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)247 days20.9%512 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)111 days12.9%1144 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 111 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 rotator cuff - repair of by financial year at Sutherland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sutherland Hospital 88NSW 247Australia 111
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Rotator cuff - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSutherland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17103239103
2017–18108234104
2018–19126214127
2019–20213202123
2020–21267301203
2021–22225307151
2022–23239313193
2023–2463281150
2024–2588247111

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

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