Keyhole joint surgery waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Half of patients at The Children's Hospital at Westmead waited 115 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 Westmead 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
- 115 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 20 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 109 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 115 days in 2024–25 — up 448% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 83 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital at Westmead | 115 days | not published | 20 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.
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 0 km away: 235 days
Blacktown Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 360 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 9 km away: 236 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 83 days
Fairfield Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 265 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 234 days
Mount Druitt Hospital, NSW · about 15 km away: 299 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 69 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 21 | 140 | 68 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 121 | 72 |
| 2018–19 | 69 | 126 | 75 |
| 2019–20 | 6 | 113 | 76 |
| 2020–21 | 76 | 183 | 89 |
| 2021–22 | 46 | 156 | 85 |
| 2022–23 | 62 | 131 | 86 |
| 2023–24 | 64 | 105 | 78 |
| 2024–25 | 115 | 134 | 78 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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