Arthroscopy waiting time at Manning Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Taree South area of New South Wales was 120 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: 120 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 68 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 14.7%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 110 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 139 days in 2016–17 to 120 days in 2024–25 — down 14% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wauchope District Memorial Hospital, about 57 km away, at 113 days. Here, 14.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

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
Manning Hospital	120 days	14.7%	68 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.

Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 57 km away113 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 65 km away302 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 100 km away147 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 125 km away305 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 133 km away311 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 145 km away238 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 172 km away194 days
Armidale HospitalNSW · about 173 km away65 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	Manning Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	139	140	68
2017–18	239	121	72
2018–19	67	126	75
2019–20	98	113	76
2020–21	152	183	89
2021–22	91	156	85
2022–23	76	131	86
2023–24	81	105	78
2024–25	120	134	78

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

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