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Torn knee cartilage removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for torn knee cartilage removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 142 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 57 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Meniscectomy".

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

33 public hospitals in New South Wales reported torn knee cartilage removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Meniscectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

28 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 57 days marks the national median.

Meniscectomy 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 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 36 days not published 11 surgeries
2 Hawkesbury Hospital 228 days not published 17 surgeries
3 Fairfield Hospital 272 days not published 25 surgeries
4 Coffs Harbour Hospital 277 days not published 11 surgeries
5 Wollongong Hospital 297 days not published 10 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Belmont Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Campbelltown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Cessnock Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Concord Repatriation Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Dubbo Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Gosford Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Goulburn Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Grafton Base Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked John Hunter Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lismore Base Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Moruya Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Nepean Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Orange Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Port Macquarie Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics not published not published not published
unranked Ryde Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Singleton Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published not published
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published not published
unranked Wagga Wagga Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Wauchope District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Westmead Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
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The median wait for torn knee cartilage removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 142 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Torn knee cartilage removal waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/meniscectomy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/meniscectomy/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.

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 New South Wales.