Arthroscopy waiting time at Williamstown Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Williamstown area of Victoria was 41 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: 41 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 136 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.7%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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 74 days in 2016–17 to 41 days in 2024–25 — down 45% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 9 km away, at 40 days. Here, 3.7% 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
Williamstown Hospital	41 days	3.7%	136 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	48 days	4.2%	1804 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.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 8 km away60 days
The AlfredVIC · about 8 km away46 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away40 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 9 km away98 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 10 km away59 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away42 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 15 km away57 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 16 km away64 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	Williamstown Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	74	41	68
2017–18	77	48	72
2018–19	65	45	75
2019–20	77	51	76
2020–21	48	64	89
2021–22	53	64	85
2022–23	89	74	86
2023–24	94	63	78
2024–25	41	48	78

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

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