Hip replacement waiting time at Busselton Health Campus

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the West Busselton 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: 142 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 96 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 24.0%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 59 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 218 days in 2018–19 to 142 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median rose from 119 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 44 km away, at 137 days. Here, 24.0% 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
Busselton Health Campus	142 days	24.0%	96 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	125 days	10.6%	1495 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.

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 44 km away137 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 131 km away56 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 157 km away104 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 181 km away104 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 182 km away86 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 193 km away204 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 196 km away211 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 202 km away160 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	Busselton Health Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	95	116
2012–13	not reported for this period	92	116
2013–14	not reported for this period	69	106
2014–15	not reported for this period	84	109
2015–16	not reported for this period	78	114
2016–17	not reported for this period	86	110
2017–18	not reported for this period	90	119
2018–19	218	102	119
2019–20	92	89	120
2020–21	125	124	179
2021–22	125	114	153
2022–23	124	150	175
2023–24	117	130	135
2024–25	142	125	130

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

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