Total knee replacement waiting time at Blacktown Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Total knee 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: 362 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 169 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 40.8%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 109 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 Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Blacktown Hospital	362 days	40.8%	169 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 7 km away345 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 8 km away335 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 9 km away359 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 14 km away240 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 16 km away274 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 16 km away347 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away181 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 19 km away341 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Blacktown Hospital
NSW
Australia

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	Blacktown Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	254	303	184
2012–13	253	297	196
2013–14	295	290	194
2014–15	304	290	191
2015–16	324	290	188
2016–17	329	290	195
2017–18	315	281	198
2018–19	292	281	209
2019–20	296	296	223
2020–21	361	342	308
2021–22	406	337	293
2022–23	531	344	308
2023–24	362	321	265
2024–25	362	340	255

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at Blacktown Hospital · Total knee replacement across Australia · Total knee replacement in New South Wales