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Keyhole joint surgery waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 48 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.

32 public hospitals in Victoria 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.

4 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 Victoria 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 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 30 days 0.0% 114 surgeries
2 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 34 days 1.2% 85 surgeries
3 Box Hill Hospital 39 days 3.6% 110 surgeries
4 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 40 days not published 20 surgeries
4 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 40 days 7.5% 93 surgeries
6 Williamstown Hospital 41 days 3.7% 136 surgeries
7 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 42 days 2.5% 119 surgeries
7 Sunshine Hospital 42 days not published 15 surgeries
7 The Bendigo Hospital 42 days 0.0% 51 surgeries
10 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 44 days 0.0% 62 surgeries
11 The Alfred 46 days not published 47 surgeries
12 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 49 days not published 48 surgeries
12 Northeast Health Wangaratta 49 days 1.7% 59 surgeries
14 Dandenong Hospital 50 days not published 32 surgeries
15 Frankston Hospital 54 days not published 31 surgeries
16 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 55 days not published 26 surgeries
16 University Hospital Geelong 55 days 0.0% 80 surgeries
18 Sandringham Hospital 57 days 0.0% 58 surgeries
19 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 58 days 2.8% 72 surgeries
19 Bass Coast Health 58 days 0.0% 53 surgeries
19 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 58 days 5.1% 78 surgeries
22 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 59 days not published 46 surgeries
23 Western Hospital [Footscray] 60 days not published 30 surgeries
24 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 64 days 2.8% 108 surgeries
25 Werribee Mercy Hospital 72 days not published 48 surgeries
26 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 98 days not published 23 surgeries
27 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 106 days 7.3% 124 surgeries
28 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 107 days not published 17 surgeries
unranked Blackburn Public Surgical Centre not published not published not published
unranked Broadmeadows Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] not published not published 5 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Frankston · near Heidelberg · near Prahran · near St Albans.

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The median wait for keyhole joint surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 48 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/arthroscopy/vic/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Victoria.