Surgery Waits

Shoulder reconstruction waiting time at Nepean Hospital

The median wait for shoulder reconstruction at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 284 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
284 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 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 32 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 31 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 164 days in 2019–20 to 284 days in 2024–25 — up 73% — while the national median fell from 90 days to 88 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 36 km away, at 276 days.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Shoulder reconstruction" 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 Shoulder reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Nepean Hospital284 daysnot published26 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)272 days13.4%119 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)79 days5.6%303 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)54 days2.0%149 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)88 days6.6%835 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 88 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for shoulder reconstruction by financial year at Nepean Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Nepean Hospital 284NSW 272Australia 88
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Shoulder reconstruction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodNepean Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published80
2017–18not publishednot published84
2018–19not publishednot published84
2019–20164not published90
2020–2137523192
2021–22not published28498
2022–23not published273109
2023–2421224089
2024–2528427288

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

All surgery at Nepean Hospital · Shoulder reconstruction across Australia · Shoulder reconstruction in New South Wales