Surgery Waits

Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Sutherland Hospital

The median wait for shoulder joint replacement at this public hospital in the Caringbah area of New South Wales was 136 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
136 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
28 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 89 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 163 days in 2017–18 to 136 days in 2024–25 — down 17% — while the national median rose from 152 days to 174 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & Orthopaedics, about 18 km away, at 24 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Shoulder joint replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sutherland Hospital136 daysnot published28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)325 days30.9%912 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)174 days20.4%2417 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 174 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for shoulder joint replacement by financial year at Sutherland Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sutherland Hospital 136NSW 325Australia 174
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Shoulder joint replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSutherland Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published271147
2017–18163254152
2018–19132270163
2019–20229279154
2020–21358346246
2021–22336335218
2022–23304346254
2023–24134311192
2024–25136325174

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

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