Arthroscopy waiting time at Bowral Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Bowral area of New South Wales was 52 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 251 days in 2016–17 to 52 days in 2024–25 — down 79% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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
Bowral Hospital	52 days	not published	12 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	134 days	10.8%	2880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 39 km away315 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away89 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 45 km away108 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 57 km away255 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 71 km away79 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 81 km away83 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 82 km away234 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away265 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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 period	Bowral Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	251	140	68
2017–18	133	121	72
2018–19	89	126	75
2019–20	26	113	76
2020–21	248	183	89
2021–22	134	156	85
2022–23	43	131	86
2023–24	48	105	78
2024–25	52	134	78

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

All surgery at Bowral Hospital · Arthroscopy across Australia · Arthroscopy in New South Wales