Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at Grafton Base Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Grafton area of New South Wales was 86 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
86 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
43 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 83 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 49 days in 2016–17 to 86 days in 2024–25 — up 76% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Casino and District Memorial Hospital, about 91 km away, at 73 days.

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
Grafton Base Hospital86 daysnot published43 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 Grafton Base Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Grafton Base Hospital 86NSW 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 periodGrafton Base Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–174914068
2017–184412172
2018–194312675
2019–205911376
2020–2113518389
2021–228715685
2022–239113186
2023–2410810578
2024–258613478

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

All surgery at Grafton Base Hospital · Arthroscopy across Australia · Arthroscopy in New South Wales