Arthroscopy waiting time at Lithgow Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the South Littleton area of New South Wales was 60 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: 60 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 29 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 50 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 90 days in 2016–17 to 60 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — 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.

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
Lithgow Hospital	60 days	not published	29 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 53 km away205 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 61 km away149 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 65 km away246 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 71 km away299 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 79 km away360 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away265 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 87 km away235 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 87 km away115 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Lithgow Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	90	140	68
2017–18	79	121	72
2018–19	84	126	75
2019–20	84	113	76
2020–21	342	183	89
2021–22	170	156	85
2022–23	81	131	86
2023–24	70	105	78
2024–25	60	134	78

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

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