Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Tamworth Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the North Tamworth area of New South Wales was 194 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
194 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 128 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 170 days in 2016–17 to 194 days in 2024–25 — up 14% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Armidale Hospital, about 94 km away, at 65 days.

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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
Tamworth Hospital194 daysnot published18 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 Tamworth Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0751502253002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tamworth Hospital 194NSW 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 periodTamworth Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–1717014068
2017–1818912172
2018–1915112675
2019–2014211376
2020–2116518389
2021–2220615685
2022–2329313186
2023–2428610578
2024–2519413478

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

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