Hip replacement waiting time at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Fremantle 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: 86 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 253 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.8%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 191 days in 2011–12 to 86 days in 2024–25 — down 55% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 53 km away, at 56 days. Here, 0.8% 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
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	86 days	0.8%	253 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.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 12 km away204 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 16 km away211 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 20 km away160 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 26 km away104 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 27 km away104 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 30 km away271 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 36 km away173 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 53 km away56 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	Fremantle Hospital and Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	191	95	116
2012–13	152	92	116
2013–14	81	69	106
2014–15	116	84	109
2015–16	63	78	114
2016–17	73	86	110
2017–18	78	90	119
2018–19	120	102	119
2019–20	90	89	120
2020–21	86	124	179
2021–22	111	114	153
2022–23	155	150	175
2023–24	97	130	135
2024–25	86	125	130

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

All surgery at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in Western Australia