Surgery Waits

Arthroscopy waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

The median wait for arthroscopy at this public hospital in the Westmead area of New South Wales was 115 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
115 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
20 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 109 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 115 days in 2024–25 — up 448% — while the national median rose from 68 days to 78 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 83 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
The Children's Hospital at Westmead115 daysnot published20 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for arthroscopy by financial year at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0501001502002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Children's Hospital at Westmead 115NSW 134Australia 78
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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 periodThe Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–172114068
2017–18not published12172
2018–196912675
2019–20611376
2020–217618389
2021–224615685
2022–236213186
2023–246410578
2024–2511513478

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

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