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Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 134 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 78 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

58 public hospitals in New South Wales reported keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

5 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 78 days marks the national median.

Arthroscopy in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Queanbeyan Hospital 31 days 0.0% 57 surgeries
2 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 45 days 0.0% 57 surgeries
3 Tweed Valley Hospital 50 days 2.4% 127 surgeries
4 Bowral Hospital 52 days not published 12 surgeries
5 Cooma Hospital and Health Service 54 days not published 34 surgeries
6 Lithgow Hospital 60 days not published 29 surgeries
7 Armidale Hospital 65 days not published 16 surgeries
8 Prince of Wales Hospital 66 days 1.9% 103 surgeries
9 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 69 days 3.9% 77 surgeries
10 Casino and District Memorial Hospital 73 days 1.7% 60 surgeries
10 Moruya Hospital 73 days not published 11 surgeries
12 Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics 76 days not published 45 surgeries
13 Broken Hill Hospital 77 days 30.5% 59 surgeries
14 Goulburn Base Hospital 79 days not published 43 surgeries
15 Concord Repatriation Hospital 83 days 0.0% 66 surgeries
15 Sutherland Hospital 83 days 0.9% 115 surgeries
17 Grafton Base Hospital 86 days not published 43 surgeries
18 Wollongong Hospital 89 days 26.8% 56 surgeries
19 Royal North Shore Hospital 92 days not published 44 surgeries
20 Shoalhaven Hospital 108 days not published 38 surgeries
21 Gosford Hospital 110 days 16.7% 60 surgeries
21 Lismore Base Hospital 110 days not published 36 surgeries
23 Wauchope District Memorial Hospital 113 days not published 37 surgeries
24 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 115 days not published 20 surgeries
25 Manning Hospital 120 days 14.7% 68 surgeries
26 Griffith Base Hospital 122 days not published 15 surgeries
27 Wyong Hospital 130 days 8.0% 50 surgeries
28 Kempsey District Hospital 147 days not published 32 surgeries
29 Nepean Hospital 149 days 12.9% 139 surgeries
30 Orange Health Service 171 days 10.4% 67 surgeries
31 Canterbury Hospital 179 days 0.0% 58 surgeries
32 Sydney Children's Hospital 188 days not published 14 surgeries
33 Tamworth Hospital 194 days not published 18 surgeries
34 South East Regional Hospital 202 days not published 26 surgeries
35 Bathurst Base Hospital 205 days not published 36 surgeries
36 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 234 days 23.2% 56 surgeries
37 Westmead Hospital 235 days 18.9% 53 surgeries
38 Dubbo Hospital 236 days 22.7% 66 surgeries
38 Ryde Hospital 236 days 1.8% 56 surgeries
40 Belmont Hospital 238 days 11.7% 111 surgeries
41 Hawkesbury Hospital 246 days 4.9% 81 surgeries
42 Campbelltown Hospital 255 days 11.7% 120 surgeries
43 Fairfield Hospital 265 days not published 34 surgeries
44 St George Hospital NSW 279 days not published 12 surgeries
45 Coffs Harbour Hospital 281 days 12.3% 57 surgeries
46 Mount Druitt Hospital 299 days 1.1% 89 surgeries
47 Northern Beaches Hospital 302 days not published 26 surgeries
47 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 302 days not published 35 surgeries
49 Maitland Hospital 305 days 40.5% 74 surgeries
50 John Hunter Hospital 311 days 36.8% 57 surgeries
51 Shellharbour Hospital 315 days 13.5% 52 surgeries
52 Wagga Wagga Hospital 337 days 21.2% 99 surgeries
53 Blacktown Hospital 360 days not published 12 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Cessnock Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal Prince Alfred Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead · near Wollongong.

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The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 134 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthroscopy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthroscopy/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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