Hip replacement waiting time at Lismore Base Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Lismore area of New South Wales, 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: 177 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 142 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.0%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 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 74 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 105 days in 2011–12 to 177 days in 2024–25 — up 69% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Tweed Valley Hospital, about 75 km away, at 68 days. Here, 7.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Total hip replacement” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Lismore Base Hospital	177 days	7.0%	142 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	107 days	10.7%	1890 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.

Tweed Valley HospitalNSW · about 75 km away68 days
Robina HospitalQLD · about 82 km away95 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 95 km away95 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 102 km away213 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 127 km away154 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 141 km away91 days
Ipswich HospitalQLD · about 142 km away99 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 148 km away53 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Lismore Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	105	193	116
2012–13	247	196	116
2013–14	121	191	106
2014–15	260	206	109
2015–16	237	212	114
2016–17	268	217	110
2017–18	327	212	119
2018–19	348	220	119
2019–20	241	202	120
2020–21	337	271	179
2021–22	345	231	153
2022–23	391	244	175
2023–24	345	225	135
2024–25	177	265	130

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

All surgery at Lismore Base Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales