Total knee replacement waiting time at Canterbury 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: 278 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 151 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 68 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
Canterbury Hospital	278 days	0.0%	151 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.

Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 7 km away371 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 8 km away91 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 9 km away24 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 9 km away240 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 9 km away181 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 12 km away76 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 13 km away358 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 13 km away302 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	Canterbury Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	298	303	184
2012–13	311	297	196
2013–14	314	290	194
2014–15	302	290	191
2015–16	275	290	188
2016–17	297	290	195
2017–18	279	281	198
2018–19	275	281	209
2019–20	268	296	223
2020–21	273	342	308
2021–22	235	337	293
2022–23	160	344	308
2023–24	190	321	265
2024–25	278	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.

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