Knee replacement waiting time at Lyell McEwin Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for knee replacement — published by the source as “Total knee replacement” — at this public hospital in the Elizabeth Vale area of South 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: 114 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 54 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 14.8%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 128 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 383 days in 2011–12 to 114 days in 2024–25 — down 70% — while the national median rose from 184 days to 255 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Modbury Hospital, about 10 km away, at 99 days. Here, 14.8% 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
Lyell McEwin Hospital	114 days	14.8%	54 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	147 days	14.7%	1322 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.

Modbury HospitalSA · about 10 km away99 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 19 km away290 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 21 km away183 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 32 km away130 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 42 km away71 days
Noarlunga HospitalSA · about 46 km away330 days
Murray Bridge Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 70 km away98 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 91 km away34 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	Lyell McEwin Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	383	173	184
2012–13	342	153	196
2013–14	205	161	194
2014–15	264	212	191
2015–16	357	222	188
2016–17	358	254	195
2017–18	351	273	198
2018–19	320	244	209
2019–20	117	189	223
2020–21	367	318	308
2021–22	135	307	293
2022–23	381	230	308
2023–24	359	167	265
2024–25	114	147	255

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

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