Arthroscopy waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Arthroscopy 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: 302 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 35 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 144 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 Arthroscopy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Port Macquarie Base Hospital	302 days	not published	35 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	134 days	10.8%	2880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	7.1%	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.

Wauchope District Memorial HospitalNSW · about 14 km away113 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 43 km away147 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 65 km away120 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 128 km away281 days
Armidale HospitalNSW · about 157 km away65 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 189 km away305 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 190 km away194 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 198 km away86 days

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

How the wait has changed

Port Macquarie Base Hospital
NSW
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Arthroscopy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	196	140	68
2017–18	174	121	72
2018–19	not published	126	75
2019–20	289	113	76
2020–21	247	183	89
2021–22	236	156	85
2022–23	212	131	86
2023–24	309	105	78
2024–25	302	134	78

What is not here

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

All surgery at Port Macquarie Base Hospital · Arthroscopy across Australia · Arthroscopy in New South Wales