Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Wagga Wagga 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: 364 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 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 78 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
Wagga Wagga Hospital	364 days	not published	45 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)	not published	not published	53 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	325 days	30.9%	912 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	116 days	11.8%	575 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.

North Canberra HospitalACT · about 158 km away182 days
The Canberra HospitalACT · about 160 km away238 days
Northeast Health WangarattaVIC · about 167 km away77 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 219 km away232 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 224 km away163 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	337	271	147
2017–18	274	254	152
2018–19	349	270	163
2019–20	388	279	154
2020–21	378	346	246
2021–22	338	335	218
2022–23	418	346	254
2023–24	363	311	192
2024–25	364	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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