Arthroscopy waiting time at Shoalhaven Hospital

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the West Nowra area of New South Wales was 108 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: 108 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 38 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 103 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 327 days in 2016–17 to 108 days in 2024–25 — down 67% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bowral Hospital, about 45 km away, at 52 days.

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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
Shoalhaven Hospital	108 days	not published	38 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.

Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 41 km away315 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 45 km away52 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away89 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away79 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 90 km away255 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away83 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 111 km away234 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 112 km away279 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	327	140	68
2017–18	146	121	72
2018–19	146	126	75
2019–20	76	113	76
2020–21	148	183	89
2021–22	148	156	85
2022–23	72	131	86
2023–24	63	105	78
2024–25	108	134	78

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

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