Surgery Waits

Meniscectomy waiting time at Hawkesbury Hospital

The median wait for meniscectomy at this public hospital in the Windsor area of New South Wales was 228 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
228 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
17 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 14 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 277 days in 2016–17 to 228 days in 2024–25 — down 18% — while the national median rose from 50 days to 57 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, about 29 km away, at 36 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Meniscectomy, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Hawkesbury Hospital228 daysnot published17 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)142 days7.9%164 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)57 days3.6%561 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 57 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for meniscectomy by financial year at Hawkesbury Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hawkesbury Hospital 228NSW 142Australia 57
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Meniscectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodHawkesbury Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–172779250
2017–182909156
2018–191259951
2019–201349862
2020–21337184109
2021–2220618889
2022–2326623097
2023–2423815069
2024–2522814257

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

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