Total knee replacement waiting time at Geraldton 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: 210 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 97 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 16.5%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 54 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
Geraldton Hospital	210 days	16.5%	97 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	155 days	18.8%	2087 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.

Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 347 km away174 days
Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 364 km away174 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 371 km away388 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away321 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 373 km away361 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away131 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 396 km away124 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 406 km away120 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Geraldton Hospital
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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	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	123	119	184
2012–13	113	105	196
2013–14	85	83	194
2014–15	111	102	191
2015–16	92	94	188
2016–17	125	100	195
2017–18	153	120	198
2018–19	162	135	209
2019–20	188	126	223
2020–21	275	170	308
2021–22	286	184	293
2022–23	374	213	308
2023–24	239	165	265
2024–25	210	155	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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