Meniscectomy waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

The median wait for meniscectomy at this public hospital in the Bendigo area of Victoria was 31 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: 31 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 16 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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 74 days in 2021–22 to 31 days in 2024–25 — down 58% — while the national median fell from 89 days to 57 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Northern Hospital [Epping], about 120 km away, at 26 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
The Bendigo Hospital	31 days	not published	16 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	35 days	2.5%	284 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	57 days	3.6%	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.

The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 120 km away26 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 133 km away30 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 133 km away31 days
The AlfredVIC · about 137 km away16 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 147 km away86 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 156 km away42 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 Meniscectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Bendigo Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	41	50
2017–18	not published	41	56
2018–19	not published	29	51
2019–20	not published	31	62
2020–21	not published	67	109
2021–22	74	47	89
2022–23	not published	52	97
2023–24	not published	41	69
2024–25	31	35	57

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

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