Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Wagga Wagga Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Turvey Park area of New South Wales was 337 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
337 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
99 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
21.2%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 149 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 227 days in 2016–17 to 337 days in 2024–25 — up 48% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 121 km away, at 55 days. Here, 21.2% 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Wagga Wagga Hospital337 days21.2%99 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)48 days4.2%1804 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Wagga Wagga Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Wagga Wagga Hospital 337NSW 134Australia 78
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodWagga Wagga Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1722714068
2017–1829512172
2018–1918312675
2019–2011511376
2020–2128518389
2021–2217515685
2022–2317113186
2023–2426310578
2024–2533713478

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

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