Arthroscopy waiting time at Canterbury Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Campsie area of New South Wales was 179 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: 179 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 58 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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

The median wait here has fallen from 220 days in 2016–17 to 179 days in 2024–25 — down 19% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, about 8 km away, at 76 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

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
Canterbury Hospital	179 days	0.0%	58 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.

St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 6 km away279 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 7 km away234 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 8 km away76 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away83 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 12 km away45 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 13 km away188 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 13 km away66 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 13 km away83 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	Canterbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	220	140	68
2017–18	217	121	72
2018–19	217	126	75
2019–20	149	113	76
2020–21	259	183	89
2021–22	385	156	85
2022–23	142	131	86
2023–24	110	105	78
2024–25	179	134	78

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

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