Total knee replacement waiting time at Clare 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: 36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 31 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 3 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
Clare Hospital	36 days	not published	31 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	147 days	14.7%	1322 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.

Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 92 km away110 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 102 km away114 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 112 km away99 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 117 km away290 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 121 km away183 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 131 km away180 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 133 km away130 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 141 km away71 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	Clare Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	345	173	184
2012–13	178	153	196
2013–14	42	161	194
2014–15	55	212	191
2015–16	48	222	188
2016–17	62	254	195
2017–18	105	273	198
2018–19	50	244	209
2019–20	21	189	223
2020–21	30	318	308
2021–22	68	307	293
2022–23	26	230	308
2023–24	19	167	265
2024–25	36	147	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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