Arthroscopy waiting time at Goulburn Base Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Goulburn area of New South Wales was 79 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: 79 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 43 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 74 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 286 days in 2016–17 to 79 days in 2024–25 — down 72% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bowral Hospital, about 71 km away, at 52 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Goulburn Base Hospital	79 days	not published	43 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 71 km away52 days
Queanbeyan HospitalNSW · about 80 km away31 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 82 km away108 days
Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 105 km away315 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 113 km away89 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 125 km away255 days
Moruya HospitalNSW · about 133 km away73 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 143 km away149 days

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

How the wait has changed

Goulburn Base Hospital
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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	Goulburn Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	286	140	68
2017–18	280	121	72
2018–19	87	126	75
2019–20	214	113	76
2020–21	187	183	89
2021–22	130	156	85
2022–23	81	131	86
2023–24	71	105	78
2024–25	79	134	78

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

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