Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at John Hunter 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: 400 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 36 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 84 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
John Hunter Hospital	400 days	not published	36 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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 12 km away362 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 26 km away428 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away136 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 64 km away128 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 102 km away172 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 111 km away335 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 112 km away318 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 116 km away210 days

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

How the wait has changed

John Hunter Hospital
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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	John Hunter Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	316	271	147
2017–18	331	254	152
2018–19	274	270	163
2019–20	310	279	154
2020–21	382	346	246
2021–22	305	335	218
2022–23	393	346	254
2023–24	385	311	192
2024–25	400	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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