Arthroscopy waiting time at Armidale Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Armidale area of New South Wales was 65 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: 65 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 56 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2016–17 to 65 days in 2024–25 — up 14% — 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.

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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
Armidale Hospital	65 days	not published	16 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.

Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 94 km away194 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 127 km away147 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 140 km away281 days
Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 147 km away113 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 155 km away86 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away302 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 173 km away120 days
Casino and District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 227 km away73 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	Armidale Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	57	140	68
2017–18	81	121	72
2018–19	271	126	75
2019–20	170	113	76
2020–21	63	183	89
2021–22	130	156	85
2022–23	70	131	86
2023–24	47	105	78
2024–25	65	134	78

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

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