Shoulder joint replacement waiting time at Wollongong 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: 360 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 44 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 76 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
Wollongong Hospital	360 days	not published	44 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 43 km away456 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 48 km away136 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 56 km away410 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 60 km away264 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 63 km away366 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 65 km away236 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 66 km away24 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 68 km away210 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	Wollongong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	329	271	147
2017–18	107	254	152
2018–19	246	270	163
2019–20	113	279	154
2020–21	353	346	246
2021–22	343	335	218
2022–23	424	346	254
2023–24	352	311	192
2024–25	360	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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