Arthroscopy waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Windsor area of New South Wales was 246 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: 246 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 81 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 4.9%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 138 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 66 days in 2016–17 to 246 days in 2024–25 — up 273% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Nepean Hospital, about 19 km away, at 149 days. Here, 4.9% 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
Hawkesbury Hospital	246 days	4.9%	81 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.

Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 17 km away299 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 19 km away149 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 20 km away360 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 26 km away115 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 27 km away235 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 29 km away265 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 29 km away69 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 32 km away236 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	Hawkesbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	66	140	68
2017–18	81	121	72
2018–19	133	126	75
2019–20	132	113	76
2020–21	213	183	89
2021–22	292	156	85
2022–23	252	131	86
2023–24	256	105	78
2024–25	246	134	78

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

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