Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Tweed Heads area of New South Wales was 50 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
50 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
127 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
2.4%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 31 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 50 days in 2024–25 — down 12% — 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. Here, 2.4% 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
Tweed Valley Hospital50 days2.4%127 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)79 days7.7%1582 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.

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 arthroscopy by financial year at Tweed Valley Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Tweed Valley Hospital 50NSW 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 periodTweed Valley Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–175714068
2017–183712172
2018–198212675
2019–204111376
2020–218318389
2021–227515685
2022–235313186
2023–244210578
2024–255013478

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

All surgery at Tweed Valley Hospital · Arthroscopy across Australia · Arthroscopy in New South Wales