Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Hedland Health Campus

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the South Hedland area of Western Australia was 29 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
29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
10 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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 63 days in 2016–17 to 29 days in 2024–25 — down 54% — 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.

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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
Hedland Health Campus29 daysnot published10 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)75 days5.1%1045 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 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Hedland Health Campus, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hedland Health Campus 29WA 75Australia 78
  • Hedland Health Campus
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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 periodHedland Health Campus (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17634768
2017–18156072
2018–19306675
2019–20not published5976
2020–21not published7089
2021–2217585
2022–23668286
2023–24not published7478
2024–25297578

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

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