Knee replacement waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria, 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: 181 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 85 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 11.8%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 46 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 82 days in 2011–12 to 181 days in 2024–25 — up 121% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is University Hospital Geelong, about 80 km away, at 113 days. Here, 11.8% 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
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]	181 days	11.8%	85 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	133 days	14.9%	3839 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.

University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 80 km away113 days
Werribee Mercy HospitalVIC · about 83 km away370 days
Broadmeadows Health ServiceVIC · about 95 km away198 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 95 km away278 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 98 km away131 days
The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 98 km away86 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 101 km away225 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 103 km away49 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 Total knee replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	82	123	184
2012–13	77	141	196
2013–14	82	160	194
2014–15	113	147	191
2015–16	152	148	188
2016–17	157	97	195
2017–18	104	114	198
2018–19	89	111	209
2019–20	95	125	223
2020–21	159	180	308
2021–22	134	163	293
2022–23	284	221	308
2023–24	255	181	265
2024–25	181	133	255

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

All surgery at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] · Knee replacement across Australia · Knee replacement in Victoria