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Keyhole joint surgery at Fairfield Hospital

Fairfield Hospital is a public hospital in the Prairiewood area, New South Wales. This page shows its waiting times for Keyhole joint surgery in 2024–25, beside the figures for New South Wales and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Arthroscopy".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Keyhole joint surgery at Fairfield Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Fairfield Hospital
265 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank140th of 150 nationally

Change on the year before+99 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Fairfield Hospital
not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Patients treated, Fairfield Hospital
34 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Keyhole joint surgery. They are never ranked.

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Keyhole joint surgery: Fairfield Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Fairfield Hospital265 daysnot published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure34 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)134 days10.8%2,880 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)78 days7.1%8,779 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Fairfield Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. The open hospitals below come from that list, nearest first, and each published a shorter median wait for Keyhole joint surgery than Fairfield Hospital did. Each distance is measured in a straight line.

  1. Westmead Hospital10 kilometres away235 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026
  2. The Children's Hospital at Westmead10 kilometres away115 days2024–25, released 19 August 2026

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Keyhole joint surgery at Fairfield Hospital has risen from 190 days in 2016–17 to 265 days in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2016–17, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Keyhole joint surgery: median wait by financial year, Fairfield Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
01002003004002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25
  • Fairfield Hospital
  • New South Wales
  • Australia
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Keyhole joint surgery: median wait by financial year, Fairfield Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2016–17 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearFairfield HospitalNew South WalesAustralia
2016–17190 days140 days68 days
2017–18197 days121 days72 days
2018–19220 days126 days75 days
2019–20151 days113 days76 days
2020–21291 days183 days89 days
2021–22347 days156 days85 days
2022–23314 days131 days86 days
2023–24166 days105 days78 days
2024–25265 days134 days78 days

All planned surgery at Fairfield Hospital

Keyhole joint surgery at every public hospital in Australia

Keyhole joint surgery in New South Wales

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

Before you use these figures

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/