Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Waitara area of New South Wales was 69 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
69 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
77 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
3.9%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 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 66 days in 2016–17 to 69 days in 2024–25 — up 5% — 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. Here, 3.9% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

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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
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital69 days3.9%77 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 69NSW 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 periodHornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–176614068
2017–186112172
2018–197112675
2019–207311376
2020–216318389
2021–225415685
2022–236213186
2023–245710578
2024–256913478

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

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