Arthroscopy waiting time at Wollongong Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Wollongong area of New South Wales was 89 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: 89 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 56 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 26.8%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 84 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 326 days in 2016–17 to 89 days in 2024–25 — down 73% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bowral Hospital, about 43 km away, at 52 days. Here, 26.8% 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
Wollongong Hospital	89 days	26.8%	56 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 15 km away315 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 39 km away255 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 43 km away52 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 48 km away83 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 56 km away279 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 56 km away108 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 56 km away234 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 60 km away179 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	Wollongong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	326	140	68
2017–18	319	121	72
2018–19	310	126	75
2019–20	231	113	76
2020–21	338	183	89
2021–22	257	156	85
2022–23	244	131	86
2023–24	91	105	78
2024–25	89	134	78

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

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