Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Fairfield Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Shoulder joint replacement 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: 366 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 80 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 Shoulder joint replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Fairfield Hospital	366 days	not published	28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	325 days	30.9%	912 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	174 days	20.4%	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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 10 km away321 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 13 km away328 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away210 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 19 km away318 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 19 km away264 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 21 km away239 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 26 km away24 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 26 km away172 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 Shoulder joint replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Fairfield Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	278	271	147
2017–18	245	254	152
2018–19	322	270	163
2019–20	297	279	154
2020–21	364	346	246
2021–22	478	335	218
2022–23	479	346	254
2023–24	304	311	192
2024–25	366	325	174

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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