Arthroscopy waiting time at Coffs Harbour Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the North Boambee Valley area of New South Wales was 281 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: 281 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 57 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 12.3%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 142 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 323 days in 2016–17 to 281 days in 2024–25 — down 13% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Grafton Base Hospital, about 73 km away, at 86 days. Here, 12.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 7.1%.

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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
Coffs Harbour Hospital	281 days	12.3%	57 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.

Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 73 km away86 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 87 km away147 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 128 km away302 days
Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 131 km away113 days
Armidale HospitalNSW · about 140 km away65 days
Casino and District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 162 km away73 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 169 km away110 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 187 km away120 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	Coffs Harbour Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	323	140	68
2017–18	289	121	72
2018–19	253	126	75
2019–20	299	113	76
2020–21	470	183	89
2021–22	349	156	85
2022–23	347	131	86
2023–24	306	105	78
2024–25	281	134	78

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

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