Knee replacement waiting time at Joondalup Health Campus (Public)

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Joondalup 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: 174 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 271 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 8.1%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 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 97 days in 2011–12 to 174 days in 2024–25 — up 79% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, about 36 km away, at 131 days. Here, 8.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 23.2%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total knee replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)	174 days	8.1%	271 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.

Osborne Park HospitalWA · about 17 km away174 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 26 km away361 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 26 km away321 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 28 km away388 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 36 km away131 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 50 km away124 days
Rockingham General HospitalWA · about 61 km away120 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 88 km away59 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	Joondalup Health Campus (Public) (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	97	119	184
2012–13	113	105	196
2013–14	114	83	194
2014–15	110	102	191
2015–16	90	94	188
2016–17	93	100	195
2017–18	80	120	198
2018–19	121	135	209
2019–20	141	126	223
2020–21	139	170	308
2021–22	200	184	293
2022–23	294	213	308
2023–24	192	165	265
2024–25	174	155	255

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

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