Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at Sydney Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Sydney Children's Hospital waited 188 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 Randwick 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
- 188 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 126 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 33 days in 2018–19 to 188 days in 2024–25 — up 470% — while the national median rose from 75 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Prince of Wales Hospital, about 0 km away, at 66 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney Children's Hospital | 188 days | not published | 14 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.
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 0 km away: 66 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 4 km away: 45 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, NSW · about 6 km away: 76 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 11 km away: 279 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 12 km away: 92 days
Canterbury Hospital, NSW · about 13 km away: 179 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 83 days
Sutherland Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 83 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Sydney Children's Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Sydney Children's Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 33 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 77 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 188 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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