Total knee replacement waiting time at Lismore Base 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: 300 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 179 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 19.6%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 75 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
Lismore Base Hospital	300 days	19.6%	179 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	340 days	31.3%	7172 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	266 days	21.5%	2712 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.

Tweed Valley HospitalNSW · about 75 km away97 days
Robina HospitalQLD · about 82 km away338 days
Gold Coast University HospitalQLD · about 95 km away157 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 102 km away342 days
Logan HospitalQLD · about 127 km away350 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee HospitalQLD · about 141 km away337 days
Ipswich HospitalQLD · about 142 km away179 days
Princess Alexandra HospitalQLD · about 148 km away136 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. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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	Lismore Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	308	303	184
2012–13	295	297	196
2013–14	305	290	194
2014–15	314	290	191
2015–16	337	290	188
2016–17	336	290	195
2017–18	347	281	198
2018–19	357	281	209
2019–20	375	296	223
2020–21	487	342	308
2021–22	396	337	293
2022–23	473	344	308
2023–24	417	321	265
2024–25	300	340	255

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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