Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Griffith Base Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Griffith area of New South Wales was 122 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
122 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
15 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 111 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 219 km away, at 55 days.

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
Griffith Base Hospital122 daysnot published15 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)48 days4.2%1804 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%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.

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Griffith Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Griffith Base Hospital 122NSW 134Australia 78
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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 periodGriffith Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period14068
2017–18not reported for this period12172
2018–19not reported for this period12675
2019–20not reported for this period11376
2020–21not published18389
2021–22not reported for this period15685
2022–23not published13186
2023–24not published10578
2024–2512213478

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

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