Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Shoalhaven 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: 410 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 18 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 85 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
Shoalhaven Hospital	410 days	not published	18 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.

Bowral HospitalNSW · about 45 km away456 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 56 km away360 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 82 km away232 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 104 km away136 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 115 km away264 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 116 km away366 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 121 km away236 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 122 km away24 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	Shoalhaven Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	271	147
2017–18	not published	254	152
2018–19	352	270	163
2019–20	375	279	154
2020–21	574	346	246
2021–22	484	335	218
2022–23	353	346	254
2023–24	not published	311	192
2024–25	410	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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