Surgery Waits

Meniscectomy waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

The median wait for meniscectomy at this public hospital in the Joondalup area of Western Australia was 87 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
87 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
23 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 35 days in 2016–17 to 87 days in 2024–25 — up 149% — while the national median rose from 50 days to 57 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Meniscectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)87 daysnot published23 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)not publishednot published62 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)57 days3.6%561 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for meniscectomy by financial year at Joondalup Health Campus (Public), compared with Western Australia and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 87WA 95Australia 57
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Meniscectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodJoondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17354850
2017–18125356
2018–19518451
2019–20557662
2020–21121104109
2021–228710189
2022–231019597
2023–2497not published69
2024–2587not published57

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

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