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Shoulder joint replacement waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for shoulder joint replacement in New South Wales public hospitals was 325 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 174 days.

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

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

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

16 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 174 days marks the national median.

Shoulder joint replacement 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 Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics 24 days not published 16 surgeries
2 Tweed Valley Hospital 35 days not published 25 surgeries
3 Gosford Hospital 128 days not published 22 surgeries
4 Sutherland Hospital 136 days not published 28 surgeries
4 Wyong Hospital 136 days not published 38 surgeries
6 Orange Health Service 147 days not published 21 surgeries
7 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 172 days not published 13 surgeries
8 Lismore Base Hospital 174 days not published 33 surgeries
9 Grafton Base Hospital 176 days not published 18 surgeries
10 Concord Repatriation Hospital 210 days not published 29 surgeries
11 Manning Hospital 230 days not published 14 surgeries
12 Goulburn Base Hospital 232 days not published 18 surgeries
13 Prince of Wales Hospital 236 days not published 12 surgeries
14 Nepean Hospital 239 days not published 48 surgeries
15 Canterbury Hospital 264 days not published 12 surgeries
16 South East Regional Hospital 300 days not published 24 surgeries
17 Ryde Hospital 318 days not published 14 surgeries
18 Westmead Hospital 321 days not published 19 surgeries
19 Mount Druitt Hospital 328 days not published 14 surgeries
20 Hawkesbury Hospital 335 days not published 17 surgeries
21 Wollongong Hospital 360 days not published 44 surgeries
22 Belmont Hospital 362 days not published 35 surgeries
23 Bathurst Base Hospital 364 days not published 19 surgeries
23 Wagga Wagga Hospital 364 days not published 45 surgeries
25 Fairfield Hospital 366 days not published 28 surgeries
26 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 372 days not published 43 surgeries
27 Dubbo Hospital 388 days not published 34 surgeries
28 John Hunter Hospital 400 days not published 36 surgeries
29 Shoalhaven Hospital 410 days not published 18 surgeries
30 Coffs Harbour Hospital 417 days 72.6% 62 surgeries
31 Maitland Hospital 428 days not published 26 surgeries
32 Bowral Hospital 456 days not published 14 surgeries
unranked Armidale Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Blacktown Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Campbelltown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kempsey District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal Prince Alfred Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Tamworth Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked Wauchope District Memorial Hospital not published not published not published

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

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The median wait for shoulder joint replacement in New South Wales public hospitals was 325 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Shoulder joint replacement waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/shoulder-joint-replacement/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/shoulder-joint-replacement/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.