Surgery Waits

Meniscectomy waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

The median wait for meniscectomy at this public hospital in the Lalor area of Victoria was 26 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
26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 19 days in 2023–24 to 26 days in 2024–25 — up 37% — while the national median fell from 69 days to 57 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 22 km away, at 16 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 Northern Hospital [Epping]26 daysnot published21 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)35 days2.5%284 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for meniscectomy by financial year at The Northern Hospital [Epping], compared with Victoria and Australiadays03163941252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Northern Hospital [Epping] 26VIC 35Australia 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 periodThe Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published4150
2017–18not published4156
2018–19not published2951
2019–20not published3162
2020–21not published67109
2021–22not published4789
2022–23not published5297
2023–24194169
2024–25263557

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

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