Meniscectomy waiting time at Fairfield Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Meniscectomy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 272 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 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 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Meniscectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Fairfield Hospital	272 days	not published	25 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	142 days	7.9%	164 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.

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 26 km away36 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 29 km away228 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 63 km away297 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 445 km away277 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Fairfield Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	92	50
2017–18	not published	91	56
2018–19	not published	99	51
2019–20	262	98	62
2020–21	384	184	109
2021–22	179	188	89
2022–23	285	230	97
2023–24	212	150	69
2024–25	272	142	57

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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