Knee replacement waiting time at Albany Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia, 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: 365 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 76 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 48.7%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 110 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 246 days in 2011–12 to 365 days in 2024–25 — up 48% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 162 days. Here, 48.7% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	365 days	48.7%	76 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	155 days	18.8%	2087 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	255 days	23.2%	17987 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 255 days marks the national median.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away162 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 281 km away275 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 339 km away59 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 360 km away120 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 364 km away124 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 383 km away131 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away388 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 388 km away361 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total knee replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	246	119	184
2012–13	218	105	196
2013–14	210	83	194
2014–15	112	102	191
2015–16	166	94	188
2016–17	178	100	195
2017–18	215	120	198
2018–19	286	135	209
2019–20	303	126	223
2020–21	370	170	308
2021–22	341	184	293
2022–23	275	213	308
2023–24	303	165	265
2024–25	365	155	255

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Albany Hospital · Knee replacement across Australia · Knee replacement in Western Australia