Hip replacement waiting time at Bathurst Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Bathurst area of New South Wales, 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: 322 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 82 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 19.5%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 108 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 70 days in 2011–12 to 322 days in 2024–25 — up 360% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Orange Health Service, about 46 km away, at 276 days. Here, 19.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Bathurst Base Hospital	322 days	19.5%	82 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 46 km away276 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 113 km away330 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 118 km away276 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 123 km away334 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 131 km away349 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 133 km away348 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 138 km away109 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 143 km away345 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 hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bathurst Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	70	193	116
2012–13	207	196	116
2013–14	297	191	106
2014–15	127	206	109
2015–16	180	212	114
2016–17	177	217	110
2017–18	285	212	119
2018–19	283	220	119
2019–20	253	202	120
2020–21	280	271	179
2021–22	173	231	153
2022–23	273	244	175
2023–24	93	225	135
2024–25	322	265	130

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

All surgery at Bathurst Base Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales