Hip replacement waiting time at Bowral Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Bowral 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: 345 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 85 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 45.9%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 114 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 280 days in 2011–12 to 345 days in 2024–25 — up 23% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 43 km away, at 335 days. Here, 45.9% 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
Bowral Hospital	345 days	45.9%	85 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.

Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 43 km away335 days
Shoalhaven HospitalNSW · about 45 km away182 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 71 km away312 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 81 km away181 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 82 km away347 days
Fairfield HospitalNSW · about 82 km away348 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 85 km away330 days
Mount Druitt HospitalNSW · about 88 km away334 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	Bowral Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	280	193	116
2012–13	294	196	116
2013–14	328	191	106
2014–15	295	206	109
2015–16	327	212	114
2016–17	324	217	110
2017–18	313	212	119
2018–19	315	220	119
2019–20	341	202	120
2020–21	325	271	179
2021–22	227	231	153
2022–23	358	244	175
2023–24	358	225	135
2024–25	345	265	130

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

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